dust

Creeping desertification in China is swallowing thousands of square kilometers of productive soil every year. It’s a challenge of gigantic and unprecedented proportions.

At this time of year in Europe, you may have noticed something in the air.

For the first time physicists have observed how highly charged dust-sized particles attract and capture others to build up clusters particle by particle.

Powerful cosmic winds can blow through galaxies, sweeping out interstellar material and stopping future star formation.

“Throw it away, get rid of it. It’s flammable,” I can hear him saying to me. “Oh no,” I would reply, “someday I’ll make an art project from it.”