As air fryers become a staple in modern kitchens, scientists are beginning to examine how they affect the air inside our homes. A new study from the University of Birmingham suggests that air fryers ...

Cooking even very fatty food in an air fryer produces fewer airborne particles than other forms of frying, according to a new study from the University of Birmingham. The work is one of the first ...

Long-term high ultrafine particle concentrations in New York state neighborhoods are linked to higher numbers of deaths. That is the key finding of our new research, published in the Journal of ...

Air fryers emit fewer volatile organic compounds and nitrogen dioxide pollutants than traditional oil frying, but hidden grease can pollute your kitchen air.

For years, scientists suspected that waves breaking on plastic-littered seas were a major source of the tiny fragments now turning up in the air we breathe. A new global analysis flips that story, ...

A new study estimates that adults inhale up to 68,000 microplastic particles per day inside homes and cars, with most particles small enough to reach deep into the lungs. (Image by Nadiia Yakovenko, ...

Share on Pinterest Scientists are discovering that inhaled toxic particles may be able to reach and possibly damage the brain. Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images While air pollution has often been shown ...

Sarasota County issued an advisory warning of an elevated amount of particulate matter that may affect local air quality, officials said in a Thursday press release. Particulate matter involves a mix ...

Representative light microscopy images of carbonaceous (black) particles adherent to red blood cells (red arrows) from healthy volunteers. Each image is from a different adult volunteer. Researchers ...

In a press release, Australia’s University of Technology Sydney unveiled new research undertaken by some of its faculty into the possible link between Alzheimer’s and magnetite, a pollutant most ...

Every time we open our mouth we exhale particles that may contain the virus. As states begin to adjust to a new normal and people start spending more time indoors, experts and local officials are ...