As the data from space missions and laboratories improve, a research domain combining plasmas and charged dust is gaining in prominence. Our solar system provides many natural laboratories such as planetary rings, comet comae and tails, ejecta clouds around moons and asteroids, and Earth’s noctilucent clouds for which to closely study plasma-embedded cosmic dust. One natural laboratory to study...

Charging currents of electrons and ions to a spherical dust grain in a uniform magnetized dusty plasma have been examined. It is found that the external magnetic field reduces the charging currents, thereby decreasing the dust charge fluctuation damping of a low-frequency electrostatic wave in a dusty plasma.

concerns have been raised about the adverse impact of dusty air pollution (dap) on human health. the aim of this study was to find the association between dusty air pollution based on air quality index (aqi) and the risk of allergic diseases in southwestern provinces of iran, with assessing cytokine profiles and lymphocyte immunophenotypes.in this case control study 148 individuals participated...

Real dusty crystals are inhomogeneous due to the presence of external forces. We suggest approximations for calculations of different types of inhomoge-neous DC (chain and DC with a few slabs) in the equilibrium state. The results are in a good agreement with experimental results and can be used as an effective diagnostic method for many dusty systems.

You are a Curator of Mammals, what does a Mammal Curator do? I head the mammal collection at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ). The collection comprises specimens collected as early as the 1830s, the red squirrel series collected by Louis Agassiz (one of Darwin’s biggest foes), and hundreds of type specimens, including that of Gorilla gorilla. I have a terrific staff that looks afte...