Region residents experienced an extremely rare weather event Friday; a dust storm blasting north at 60 mph blocked out sunlight and created a brief but quasi-apocalyptic scene of high winds and low ...

Modelling suggests that the layer beneath the planet’s acidic clouds is comprised of particles from outer space.

Credit: DUST Identity Back-to-birth parts tracing might be worth its weight in gold for the aerospace industry, but an Airbus and Lockheed Martin-backed startup is turning to a much harder ...

The dust cloud, carried by strong southerly winds from Libya and Egypt, reduced visibility to less than 1 kilometer in parts of Heraklion and Rethymno, creating dramatic, apocalyptic scenes. Flights ...

Using high-intensity lasers, researchers have taken an important step toward miniaturization of particle accelerators by demonstrating free-electron laser amplification at extreme ultraviolet ...

A massive dust storm, or haboob, swept across the Sahara Desert from western Algeria into Mauritania, Morocco, Western Sahara and the Canary Islands on Monday. The dust stretched for more than 1,000 ...

Extreme weather events like dust storms, floods, and high winds are spreading dangerous fungal spores. Climate change is causing fungi to become more resilient and expand into new geographic areas.

Gusty winds up to 40 mph created areas of blowing dust along major interstates. Isolated showers and weak thunderstorms were possible, mainly south of the Phoenix metro area. A cooling trend was ...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is in the business of discovering new subatomic particles—and business is good. The team at CERN recently announced the discovery of a new particle, named Ξcc⁺ or Xi-cc ...

During a year marked by Canadian wildfire smoke and an unprecedented dust storm, which worsened transportation emissions, Chicago ranked as the third-most polluted major U.S. city in 2025, according ...