Your kitchen toaster, the same one that quietly sits on the counter between weekend brunches, may be flooding your home with ...

While it may seem common knowledge that smoking is bad for your lungs, if and how ultrafine particles present in cigarette smoke impact the development and progression of lung cancer remains unclear.

There are plenty of health hazards lurking in our homes, but you might not suspect how these common household devices could ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The risk for respiratory death went up following exposure to particles with an aerodynamic diameter of 0.1 m or ...

While it may seem common knowledge that smoking is bad for your lungs, if and how ultrafine particles present in cigarette smoke impact the development and progression of lung cancer remains unclear.

While a pop-up toaster seems almost too simple to be a household health hazard, new research shows it may be among the worst contributors to poor air quality.

Exposure to ultrafine particles from traffic alters the expression of many genes in human olfactory mucosa cells, a new study shows. The study is the first to combine an analysis of emissions from ...

Lidia Morawska recently won Australia’s Prime Minister’s Prize for Science. Her focus is ultrafine particles. What we breathe ...

There is concern that ultrafine particles (UFPs; particles with a diameter of less than 0.1 µm) can cause more health problems than larger particles. UFPs represent the smallest size fraction of ...

While it may seem common knowledge that smoking is bad for your lungs, if and how ultrafine particles present in cigarette smoke impact the development and progression of lung cancer remains unclear.

When Rosalind Wright started analyzing data on prenatal exposure to air pollution in mothers and children in Boston, she had a notion that ultra-fine particles could be even more harmful than the ...