Air quality in Courtenay is improving while pollution caused by wood stove smoke has been steadily decreasing over the past ...

An international collaboration has shown that additive manufacturing offers a realistic way to build large-scale plastic scintillator detectors for particle physics experiments.

PM2.5 is defined as fine particulate matter of 2.5 micrometers or less in diameter -- so small it can only be seen through an ...

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Microsoft claims to have created a new state of matter with the potential to significantly enhance quantum computers. This breakthrough could have far-reaching implications, from accelerating drug ...

"Most of them are solitary. In this new work, we show how to effectively double the number of pulsars we can use to constrain dark matter in the galaxy by rigorously using solitary pulsars to ...

For example, the addition of seven criteria air contaminants ... The NPRI also tracks other individual sulphur compounds that are subsets of total reduced sulphur: Particulate matter (PM) consists of ...

First, particulate matter was found to influence vegetation growth by directly reducing the total solar radiation reaching the ground, which is essential for plant photosynthesis. It can also ...

Because of its size and scope, condensed matter physics has numerous subcategories. For example, the branch of electronic condensed matter is concerned with how electrons behave in solids and liquids.