A wildfire rages across southern California wildlands towards residential communities, endangering residents and firefighters and sending property up in smoke. This is an increasingly common story, ...

Newswise — Cigarettes are the most frequent cause of fatalities from residential fires in the United States. So, it might seem surprising to learn that a cigarette that burns stronger than others has ...

Crews battle the Caldor Fire in September 2021. (CAL FIRE photo) Severe wildfire disasters are often the product of numerous factors — vegetation, drought, a lack of firefighting resources, and many ...

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released two wildfire reports from California’s Camp Fire, providing specific guidance that communities must take when ...

Researchers said once the AI model was familiar with firefighter-specific medical data, it was able to identify 6,000 abnormal ECG samples with 97% accuracy In this 2013 photo, nurse scientists Becki ...

National Institute of Standards and Technology effort uses machine learning to identify telltale sound of lithium-ion batteries hitting flash point. Two NIST researchers say they have trained a ...