The Effective Mitigations for Berkeley Ember Resilience Initiative, or EMBER, will take effect Jan. 1, 2026 and change fire ...

Starting a fire with a battery sounds risky unless it’s done correctly. This method focuses on reliability, control, and repeatable results. It works with common items and minimal effort. When ...

In the lead-up to James Cameron’s first two “Avatar” movies, the process of performance capture was mostly obscured. The magic trick of how living, breathing performers became majestic alien creatures ...

Raging flames leaped from an apartment building on Manhattan's Upper West Side on Tuesday, raining debris onto the sidewalk and spewing smoke across the cityscape, but causing no major injuries, ...

HONG KONG — A major fire tore through multiple high-rise towers at a housing complex in Hong Kong on Wednesday, killing dozens of people, the city's chief executive, John Lee, said, with 279 people ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

When Chris Lanter rolled into Aspen in 1997 with everything he owned crammed into a Honda Accord, he was headed for a pastry job at the Ritz‑Carlton and determined that cooking would be his life. He ...

SE Grand Recovery Shelter to open January 5, expanding recovery-focused shelter access The city of Portland is helping to expand access to overnight shelter with the opening of Transition Projects’ SE ...

South County Fire rolled out a new fire and emergency medical service deployment model to improve emergency services for nearly 300,000 residents across the regional fire authority (RFA). The model ...