Questions are being raised at a high level in New South Wales over the possible contamination of homes in the south-east with a deadly asbestos insulation. A contractor known as Mr Fluffy pumped ...

But scientists see a lot of need for urgency. Every time they look at asbestos under an electron microscope, they are reminded of the risks. Brenda Buck is a medical geologist at the University of ...

The images recorded on the electron microscope can be used to identify the number of fibers in the sample, and therefore the asbestos concentration, their size, but also their elemental composition, ...

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Could carbon fiber inflict the same kind of damage on the human body as asbestos? That’s the ... look at carbon fiber-reinforced filament under a microscope, revealing a sight that brings ...

Swayze said he was trying to find a way of spotting the distinctive needle-like fibers of asbestos under a microscope when he realized the spectrometer offered an easier method. Spectrometers ...

Last month, a prominent U.S. senator asked Johnson & Johnson to turn over documents related to asbestos testing at the center of a set of lawsuits linking its iconic baby powder to cancer.

A piece of roof panel believed tainted with asbestos found at the Perth Children's hospital site. (Supplied)"The number that's been reported to me has been in the order of 10 or 12 but there may ...