Micro- and nanoplastics are now popping up everywhere: in seawater, snow, food and even in our bodies. The very smallest ...

Microplastics are present in virtually all major Canadian freshwater systems, from urban rivers to remote environments. A new ...

Olivier Sandre, Florian Aubrit, Benoit Maxit, David Jacob and Sylvain Boj. Anisotropic nanoparticles (NP), including nanodiscs, nanorods, nanotubes, etc., are used extensively in fields like medicine ...

CHELMSFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The FerroCheck 2000 Series of portable magnetometers from Spectro Scientific quickly and conveniently measures total ferrous wear particulates in lubricating fluids ...

Small plastic particles alter neuron growth, suggesting that particle size may be just as important as the amount of plastic ...

Pitkin County Commissioners haven’t ruled out the measurement of ultrafine particles near the airport. But they still want ...

The fact that microplastics can accumulate organic pollutants from the environment and transport them has been known for some time. What is new, however, is that metals can also be transported in this ...

Breaking the rules is exciting, especially if they have held for a long time. This is true not just in life but also in particle physics. Here the rule I'm thinking of is called “lepton flavor ...

Empty space, despite how we think of it, may not be as empty as we assume. Although we cannot detect the virtual particles present in empty space, their presence is necessary to predict, ...