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U.S. Forest Service is testing various apps to arm firefighters with lifesaving information out in the field. When it comes to wildfires, the slightest change in weather can have disastrous consequences for firefighters ...

-- CERN to Open For Tourists in September -- Decoding the Higgs Boson: Is it the Real Deal? -- CERN God Particle Experiment One - year Old Now -- Laser system allows determination of atomic binding energy of the rarest e...

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed techniques to 3-D print liquid metal at room temperature. Exploring the limits of novel 3-D printing technology, researchers at North Carolina State Universit...

Electrodes made from the silicon derived from rice husks may prevent lithium ion batteries from degrading when they are charged and drained

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A new way of 3D printing liquid metal could offer a new range of flexible electronics

NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft famously carry a pair of golden records encoded with images and sounds from Earth. Now, a new project hopes to similarly send discs to space. Only these discs are slightly more advanced. In...

How the decades-old concept of "crashworthiness" saves lives During the early days of flying, planes weren't built to crash. They could fly, sure, but when something went wrong, there wasn't much to protect a pilot or pa...

Alan Turing and an army of codebreakers took years to crack the Enigma code - be thankful the Nazis weren't using a quantum Enigma machine

Can adding a special ingredient to coolants slash fuel bills and stir up an energy revolution? (full text available to subscribers)

As resources become more expensive, America may start mining its landfills for raw materials.

A slice of the British space budget could be used to scan for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence using data gathered by other pursuits

A rail catastrophe has left at least 13 dead in Quebec, and renewed the debate over whether it is better to move oil by freight train or pipeline