Do air cleaners really work? Yes! It’s easy to confuse portable air cleaners with whole-home air cleaners. While both work, a portable air cleaner only cleans the air in a small space, like one room, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Portable air cleaners improved respiratory outcomes among former smokers with COPD, with the greatest benefit ...

Some portable air cleaners generate chemicals such as ozone, formaldehyde and hydroxyl radicals to kill microbes. ArtistGNDphotography/E+ via Getty Images Portable air cleaners aimed at curbing indoor ...

Researchers in Finland published interim results in March from an ongoing study on the effectiveness of portable air cleaners in daycare centers to reduce childhood infections. The study compared two ...

A new study shows that masking and portable air cleaners reduced the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19 in two Swiss schools. A team led by Nicolas Banholzer and Kathrin Zürcher of the ...

Students at Rio Tierra Junior High School in Sacramento build a portable air cleaner using a box fan and high efficiency air filters. (Paul Fortunato, UC Davis) Schools are facing many challenges this ...

A new study finds that having a portable air cleaner in the home can reduce the negative impacts of air pollution on brain development in children. Scientists are studying the benefits of using air ...

Portable air cleaners aimed at curbing indoor spread of infections are rarely tested for how well they protect people – and very few studies evaluate their potentially harmful effects. That’s the ...