Do dusting sprays actually work? Three cleaning professionals weigh in and help us understand the pros and cons of these products.

Fine dust that you can’t see lurks in the air inside any heavily used workshop, and it does serious damage to your lungs over time. Not all dust is equal: Silica, metal, wood, and fibrous dust carry ...

Re-creating a piece of the universe in a bottle might sound like science fiction, but it’s exactly what Linda Losurdo did. Losurdo, a doctoral student in materials and plasma physics at the University ...

A Sydney Ph.D. student has recreated a tiny piece of the universe inside a bottle in her laboratory, producing cosmic dust from scratch. The results shed new light on how the chemical building blocks ...

Moon dust is sharp, corrosive, and potentially fatal. NASA’s new electric force field shield is designed to blast it away. Amy Fritz, a dust-mitigation researcher at Johnson Space Center, pours ...

Jason Brassard got a special request from his brother-in-law Patrick Brooks in 2019. The year before, Brooks’s younger brother, Phillip, died by drug-induced suicide, and after grieving his loss, ...

The best vegan protein powders have had a bit of a reputation crisis after a report that showed many powders on the market, especially plant-based or vegan options, showed elevated levels of ...

The drudgery of adult life tends to, over time, dull our baseline primordial senses. Instead of feeling acutely aware of the danger of a stalking predator—something that motivates an innate fear of ...

Everyone seems to be talking about protein right now—and for good reason. “Protein is the building block of every tissue in our body, from muscles and bones to organs, skin, and hair,” says Rachel ...

Stoney Beach resident Jessica Allen took her car through a Royal Farms car wash three times last week in an attempt to rid it of a mysterious dust that has recently plagued cars and homes in northern ...

Saturday afternoon, the Mt. Juliet League Inc. out of Tennessee posted a wild video of a dust devil to its Facebook page. No, the Tazmanian Devil from Looney Tunes has no role in this. Sorry for the ...

In his 1963 scifi story “The Invincible,” the Polish writer Stanisław Lem imagined an artificial species of free-floating nanobots which roamed the atmosphere of a far-off planet. Like tiny bugs, the ...