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

The flames die down. The sirens fade. Firefighters peel off their gear, thinking the danger has passed. But in the quiet ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor's Note: A person of interest was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon. Our latest update can be found here. Our original story continues below. A woman is in critical condition after police ...

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 ...

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 ...

A man who was struck and killed by a driver in North Portland earlier this month has been identified on Wednesday.The crash happened at about 7:15 p.m. on Frida Pedestrian killed in SE Portland ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

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 ...

BANDERA COUNTY, Texas — Firefighters in Pipe Creek, which is northwest of San Antonio, are battling a blaze they believe was ignited by a lightning strike during Saturday's storms. The volunteer fire ...