Cooking even very fatty food in an air fryer produces fewer airborne particles than other forms of frying, according to a new ...

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are ubiquitous, from that new car smell to the distinctive chemical scent of a factory-fresh mattress or the dizzying fumes of wet paint. Incorporated into many ...

Dryer sheets help reduce static cling while improving the fragrance of clothes. However, some scented dryer sheets have been known to cause everything from skin reactions to migraines.

Delphine Farmer is a professor of chemistry at Colorado State University. When wildfire smoke turns the air brown and hazy, you might think about heading indoors with the windows closed, running an ...

A service program of RISE St. James; Caitlion O. Hunter, Esq.; Tim Schütz, PhD Researcher, Anthropology University of California, Irvine; and The Community Scientist (TCS) Research Team The vast ...

TOXIC VOC exposure is one of the most overlooked hazards in confined space entry. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are organic compounds characterized by their tendency to evaporate easily at room ...

Hundreds of household items, including furniture, paint and electronics, emit volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which at high levels can pose health risks. Now, researchers have measured the emission ...

The Vocus PTR-TOF 2R has the highest PTR-MS resolving power available. To highlight the benefits this offers, the head space of a hot cup of coffee was examined by direct sampling into the inlet of a ...