{"id":224203,"date":"2025-10-29T09:20:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/researcher-improves-century-old-equation-to-predict-movement-of-dangerous-air-pollutants"},"modified":"2025-10-29T09:20:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:20:39","slug":"researcher-improves-century-old-equation-to-predict-movement-of-dangerous-air-pollutants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/researcher-improves-century-old-equation-to-predict-movement-of-dangerous-air-pollutants","title":{"rendered":"Researcher improves century-old equation to predict movement of dangerous air pollutants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researcher-improves-century-old-equation-to-predict-movement-of-dangerous-air-pollutants.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new method developed at the University of Warwick offers the first simple and predictive way to calculate how irregularly shaped nanoparticles\u2014a dangerous class of airborne pollutant\u2014move through the air.<\/p>\n<p>Every day, we breathe in millions of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/microscopic+particles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">microscopic particles<\/a>, including soot, dust, pollen, microplastics, viruses, and synthetic nanoparticles. Some are small enough to slip deep into the lungs and even enter the bloodstream, contributing to conditions such as heart disease, stroke, and cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Most of these <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/airborne+particles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">airborne particles<\/a> are irregularly shaped. Yet the mathematical models used to predict how these particles behave typically assume they are perfect spheres, simply because the equations are easier to solve. This makes it difficult to monitor or predict the movement of real-world, non-spherical\u2014and often more hazardous\u2014particles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new method developed at the University of Warwick offers the first simple and predictive way to calculate how irregularly shaped nanoparticles\u2014a dangerous class of airborne pollutant\u2014move through the air. Every day, we breathe in millions of microscopic particles, including soot, dust, pollen, microplastics, viruses, and synthetic nanoparticles. Some are small enough to slip deep [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,41,2229,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-information-science","category-mathematics","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}