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Real-time images have shown the runaway heating that causes lithium-ion batteries to explode.

Global warming seems to be causing 75 per cent of extreme high-temperature events and 18 per cent of extreme rainfall

Nepal still faces more deadly earthquakes in the near future, even after the magnitude-7.8 temblor that killed more than 3,000 people on Saturday.

A year before Albert Einstein came up with the special theory of relativity, or E=mc2, physicists predicted the existence of something else: cyclotron radiation. Scientists predicted this radiation to be given off by ele...

An airborne research team, supported by the NSF, scanned the McMurdo Dry Valleys revealing "salt aquifers" beneath the glaciers, lakes and frozen soils. Microbial life could thrive there, retaining evidence of ancient cl...

Photos of the lava lake in Kilauea volcano's Halemau'mau' crater, which is close to overflowing.

A new technique for visualizing the rapidly changing electronic structures of atomic-scale materials as they twist, tumble and traipse across the nanoworld is taking shape at the California Institute of Technology. There...

For people who are addicted to opioid painkillers, getting treated for addiction in the emergency room rather than waiting to see an addiction specialist may be beneficial, a new study suggests.

Underneath Antarctica's Dry Valleys lies a vast and ancient network of salty, liquid water filled with life, a new study finds.

The secret desire of urban daydreamers staring out their office windows at the sad brick walls of the building opposite them may soon be answered thanks to transparent light shutters developed by a group of researchers a...

In the run up to the UK general election, a review of climate pledges shows that all major parties offer unspecified promises rather than concrete policies

First collisions of protons at the world's largest science experiment are expected to start the first or second week of June, according to a senior research scientist with CERN's Large Hadron Collider in Geneva.

In what some might consider a terrifying development, the U.S. military has passed a key milestone in creating self-steering bullets.

Quantum particles behave in strange ways and are often difficult to study experimentally. Using mathematical methods drawn from game theory, physicists of Ludwig-Maximilias-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have shown how bos...

Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance (EXACTO) program successfully guided .50 caliber bullets to hit a moving target. The bullets' guidance system compensates for weather, wind and target movement.

How safely a teenager drives may depend on who's in the passenger seat, a new study finds.

The massive earthquake that killed more than 5,000 people in Nepal over the weekend also left dozens of historic buildings in ruins.

From the perspective of complex systems, a range of events - from chemistry and biology to extreme weather and population ecology - can be viewed as large-scale self-emergent phenomena that occur as a consequence of dete...

From politicians to celebrities, there are plenty of people who want to stop drones watching their every move. Now they have ways of doing so

The British Mk.1A - P9374/G-MK1A is one of 2 original Spitfires still in flying condition (the other is the N3200). It has been restored to its original specs.

What happens when lithium-ion batteries overheat and explode has been tracked inside and out for the first time by a UCL-led team using sophisticated 3D imaging.

The secret desire of urban daydreamers staring out their office windows at the sad brick walls of the building opposite them may soon be answered thanks to transparent light shutters developed by a group of researchers a...