Leaf blowers are not only annoying but also bad for you (and the environment)
It comes down to the inefficient engines they use.
Tag: matter
Air pollution levels rise by 30% in India as farmers align to new groundwater depletion policy
On one hand, northwest India needs to tackle groundwater depletion. On the other hand, air pollution claimed the lives of ...
Researchers estimate the monetary and health cost associated with particulate matter
Oh boy, it's not pretty.
It Is Possible Jupiter Could Support Life, Scientists Say
The chances of it happening are pretty slim though.
Air pollution seems to promote diabetes — even at officially ‘safe’ pollution levels
Don't breathe too hard.
New analysis reveals that Ceres’ spots harbor a lot of organic material
It's not a sign that Ceres ever harbored life, but it surely doesn't hurt its odds.
Scientists make most precise measurements of antimatter — but only deepen mystery
Hydrogen and anti-hydrogen are unremarkably the same.
Three Old Scientific Concepts Getting a Modern Look
The ancients often got it wrong about science -- but they weren't that far off.
The proton and antiproton are incredibly similar — indicating that perhaps, our universe shouldn’t exist
Why does the universe still exist? That's an intriguing question if I've ever heard one.
Scientists just found half of the universe’s missing matter, and strengthened the Standard Model in the process
It was floating around where we estimated it would be.
Supermassive black hole spotted struggling with its galactic meal
Sometimes, even a black hole can choke on its meal.
Physicists think they might have found a dark boson — a dark matter particle
It could be the key to understanding dark matter.
Scientists uncover unique speed and direction of Milky Way’s spinning ‘halo’
The findings could reveal the location of the missing matter of our universe.
The Universe expands much faster than we thought, and current models can’t explain why
Scientists have completed the most precise measurement of the Universe's rate of expansion to date; but the result just isn't ...
Depression in children changes the brain for life
Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, looking into the effects depression has on the brain ...
Matter and antimatter have the same properties, experiment suggests
All models of particle physics are based on the mundane assumption that matter and anti-matter are indistinguishable, but we can't ...
Astronomers find the sun’s first sibling: a star made of the same stuff
A star like our Sun is shown with an orbiting planet in the foreground in this artist's impression. Image credit: ...
Weird state of matter found in chicken’s eye
You may not find many interesting things to see when glaring into a chicken's eye, but after closely studying its ...
State of matter difference between liquids and solids redefined
What's the difference between a solid and liquid? You might find this question trivial - naturally, liquids flow and solids... ...
Antimatter excess in space hints of tangible evidence of dark matter
A $1.6 billion cosmic ray experiment on the International Space Station has come across evidence of antimatter in space, a remarkable ...
Coldest antimatter yet might help scientists probe its secrets
A novel technique for cooling antimatter down to the point where it might become almost stationary might provide scientists with ...
Antimatter captured at CERN
For physicists, antimatter is probably the most valuable substance ever; the slightest bit of it could provide extremely valuable information ...
Large Hadron Collider hints at infant Universe
Despite several setbacks and technical difficulties, the Large Hadrdon Collider is already starting to live up to it's nickname, the ...