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What does the dust in your home mean for your health?

  • Written by Gabriel Filippelli, Professor of Earth Sciences and Director of the Center for Urban Health, IUPUI
What does the dust in your home mean for your health?Some ingredients in those tiny particles can have big impacts.Yaroslau Mikheyeu/Shutterstock.com

You vacuum it, sweep it and wipe it off your furniture. But do you know what it actually is – and how it may affect your health?

Don’t feel bad if you’re clueless about your dust. Scientists are not that far ahead of you in terms of...

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