Planets are formed when dust and rock in a disk around a young star collide and combine to form ever larger bodies. This so-called accretion is not yet fully understood. Astrophysicists at the ...

Maintaining indoor air quality (IAQ) in manufacturing facilities is essential for worker safety and operational efficiency. Dust generated from various processes can pose significant health risks to ...

Billowing clouds of the stuff struck a severe blow to the American heartland during the 1930s, ruining wheat crops and forcing farming families to flee westward. Apollo astronauts tracked it into the ...

A new dust testing methodology developed by University of Queensland researchers offers workers better protection from diseases such as black lung and silicosis. Leader of the Dust and Respiratory ...

The University of Colorado Boulder will soon begin testing an instrument that will fly on a NASA mission in 2025 to collect data on interstellar dust particles. The instrument is called IDEX, or ...

The United States Pharmacopeia (USP) and others, such as EP, JP, and ChP, have developed test techniques to ensure that particle counts are kept to a minimum in intravenous injections (parenteral ...

GE Aviation has completed dust-ingestion testing on its new GE9X engine for the Boeing 777X, as the propulsion specialist eyes a potential third application for the widebody turbofan. Performed at the ...