National Institute of Standards and Technology effort uses machine learning to identify telltale sound of lithium-ion ...

A new study by researchers at USC has found that a popular fire retardant is laden with toxic metals, and estimates retardant ...

Firefighters were on scene Saturday morning at a west Louisville chemical factory that specializes in making rubber.

A lithium-ion battery about to catch fire makes a distinct click-hiss as gases escape. NIST researchers have trained AI to ...

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a way to use sound to detect when ...

Rob Wilson stood on his home’s back deck in Flagstaff, in the U.S. state of Arizona, as the wildfire approached. All was ...

Firefighting is extremely dangerous, and special equipment often makes the difference in life-and-death scenarios involving raging fires, collapsing buildings or toxic fumes.

That procedure, a new FDA-approved screen for esophageal cancer, had firefighters showing up to the fire station on Magazine ...

The opaque plumes of noxious smoke billowing out of a Georgia chemical plant are long gone. But the relentless effects of the ...

This week, representatives with Lucid Diagnostics partnered with Richmond Fire to provide optional testing for esophageal ...

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