"To protect health, it would be important to also take tire abrasion into account when regulating air quality and to set limits for microplastics in the air," said professor Hartmut Herrmann from the ...

What governs the speed at which raindrops fall, sediment settles in river estuaries, and matter is ejected during a supernova? These questions circle around one, deceitfully simple factor: the rate at ...

Based on a large number of experimental results, the reason why small-sized Goss grains can engulf surrounding large-sized grains and eventually grow ...

Although plastic particles in the air are increasingly coming into focus, knowledge about their distribution and effects is still limited. Chemical analyses from Leipzig now provide details from ...

SW Florida is experiencing a healthcare boom with billions invested in new hospitals, specialty centers, and maybe a medical ...

A 2,000-page monograph series proposes a new conceptual framework connecting quantum physics, gravitation and cosmological evolution.

There's something almost suspicious about how much cleaning gear we own today compared to our grandparents. Shelves full of ...

Water droplets can slide down or bounce off a leaf's surface because it has a waxy hydrophobic (water-repellent) coating. However, this poses a challenge to farmers when pesticides are sprayed, as the ...

Routine home cleaning helps remove dust, allergens, and everyday contaminants that collect within indoor spaces”— ...

When you drill down into the very fabric of reality—where elementary particles make up the matter that is you and me and everything around us in three-dimensional space—things get divided nicely into ...

3D printing can be a lengthy business: a workpiece is built up layer by layer. A team from China has now developed a 3D printing process in which, according to the developers, a workpiece can be ...