Or envision programmable smart dust that triggers an alarm signal when invisible microcracks are detected in a turbine blade. Smart dust refers to wireless networks of sub-millimeter-scale autonomous ...

Originally a witch doctor from Barbados, this personage arrived in Addis Ababa many years ago with an impressivemanner and a suitcase full of goofer dust, rabbits’ feet, crocodile bones and ...

In less than one month a phenomenon dating back to the second century AD will take place - the arrival of “Hwang Sa” or Yellow Dust in Korea. Originating in the deserts of Northern China and Mongolia, ...

As dust from the Sahara blows thousands of kilometers across the Atlantic Ocean, it becomes progressively more nutritious for marine microbes, a new study suggests. Dust clouds settling on the ...

I was born in what’s now the center — what was considered the center of the Panhandle, the Dust Bowl. I feel like that just being raised in that time period, I have a good history to remember.

Dust collectors are used in many processes to either recover valuable granular solid or powder from process streams or to remove granular solid pollutants from exhaust gases and work environments.

The Fund seeks daily investment results, before fees and expenses, of 200% of the inverse (or opposite) of the price performance of the NYSE Arca Gold Miners Index. The Fund creates short ...

Some of the most intimidating sights in nature are rolling dark clouds of sand and dust that engulf everything in their path, a phenomenon that turns day into night and wreaks havoc everywhere ...

Albert Einstein called it his happiest thought: Sitting at his desk in Bern, Switzerland, the young patent clerk mused that ...

Set right in the heart of the Dust Bowl in 1930s Oklahoma (New Mexico stands in for the location), Margaret is battling nature’s elements of constant dust storms, not to mention famine ...

But sneaky indoor pollutants like dust, pet dander and smoke from cooking can compromise air quality. Even if it's not allergy or wildfire season, irritants from cleaning supplies, paint ...

Thousands of families simply abandoned their farms altogether. In 1929, an unprecedented decade of drought, known as the Dust Bowl, hits parts of the Canadian prairies. (National Archives of ...