Health

3-D printers may be toxic for humans

Risk researchers are asking new questions about the health and safety implications and how to mitigate any potential health risks to users of 3-D printers and consumers of products manufactured with this emerging technology, ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Coronavirus: the importance of ventilation

Using laser light techniques, UvA physicists and medical researchers have found that small cough droplets, potentially containing virus particles, can float in the air in a room for many minutes, especially when the room ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Is 6 feet of social distancing really enough?

By now, Americans are familiar with the rule: Stay six feet away from other people for your best chance of preventing the spread of COVID-19.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Finding effective face mask fabric

The air that pours into your lungs when you breathe travels, on average, at about 10 centimeters a second. But it's often not just air you're breathing. There can be dust, pollen, soot and bacteria in air, and now, floating ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Air pollution may lead to dementia in older women

Tiny air pollution particles—the type that mainly comes from power plants and automobiles—may greatly increase the chance of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, according to USC-led research.

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