MIT spinoff PolyJoule has introduced a third-generation battery that can withstand direct exposure to a 3,600°F propane torch without igniting. The design replaces flammable lithium metals with ...

Knowing what to do during a fire could save lives. And one of the most important actions is to close the door. That’s the ...

Chinese battery researchers working to combat overheating have created a literal firewall inside packs, with clear safety ...

An architect and developer who helped build the Palisades community is back at it again after his own home burned to the ...

A Labour Department official has told an inquiry into Hong Kong’s deadly Tai Po inferno that the temporary removal of fireproof windows from emergency passages in the blaze-hit estate complied with ...

Years of research and development, precision manufacturing, extreme testing, constant monitoring, and dozens of failsafes all go into preventing thermal runaway in batteries. Now, researchers from the ...

Some 145,000 film reels are stored in strictly fireproof conditions in a vast, chilly vault at the library’s National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper. CULPEPER: Once upon a time in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The highly combustible nitrate film used from the dawn of cinema in the 1890s until the early 1950s has a permanent home in a ...

Experts at technology university ETH Zurich and research institute Empa have developed a process that uses the mineral struvite to convert sawdust into a recyclable, non-combustible composite material ...

Matthew PENNINGTON AFP Apr 13, 2026 1 hr ago 0 The highly combustible nitrate film used from the dawn of cinema in the 1890s until the early 1950s has a permanent home in a vault run by the Library of ...

A Pasadena, California, mansion built for a lumber baron and member of the Goodyear family is on the market for the first time in 60 years with a listing price of $12 million. Dating to 1913, the home ...

While 2025 battered the broader housing market with inflation, elevated interest rates, and rising labor and material costs, the luxury segment continued to thrive. “The luxury market has been ...