When the solar probe Ulysses embarked on its 19-year-long exploration tour in 1990, the participating researchers turned their attention not only to our Sun, but also to significantly smaller research ...

I spent the better part of my adult life on huge construction sites, where I was constantly breathing in the billowing dust of bulldozers and earth-movers, not to mention plumes of welding smoke. Like ...

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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 ...