The World Health Organization (WHO) warns that air pollution is of great concern and impacts health in many ways. To better the situation, it’s necessary to focus on air quality. However, when ...

The United Kingdom and the United States share many similarities but are distinctly different in the way each nation structures and enforces their respective health and safety legislation, monitoring ...

A study published in the journal Cell provides the clearest evidence to date that people infected with influenza actively expel infectious virus into the air and that the amount released varies ...

What if you could stop germs at the door? Or know within minutes if a virus was in the air? Scientists at Rush are researching a tool that detects germs in the air, even as they enter a building or ...

A researcher in protective gear collects samples from a Topanga home burned in the Palisades fire. (Nicholas Spada, UC Davis) While the fires that devastated Los Angeles in January are now contained, ...

Sampling is a technique in which samples are drawn at random (without any favor or bias). For this, suitable measures or procedures may be laid down and adopted according to the nature and ...