This idea came to researchers after they watched a video of batteries exploding and it happens when the battery slot breaks because of too much heat which makes a hiss sound. Even though mobile users ...

A man and woman are dead after a house in Bethel exploded Tuesday morning scattering debris throughout the neighborhood, fire officials said. Bethel Tate Fire Department Chief Christopher Cooper ...

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed an AI that detects when a lithium-ion battery is about to catch fire and sends an alert before all hell ...

As the team now explains, their technology makes use of the fact that the batteries inflate shortly before the explosion. Many housings therefore have a safety valve through which the pressure is ...

Machine learning used to separate opening a can of soda from something catastrophic Researchers at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology have come up with an early warning system for ...

What could possibly go wrong? The solution came from machine learning. The NIST team took the audio from 38 exploding batteries and tweaked the pitch and speed to create more than 1,000 audio samples, ...

The S&P 500 briefly breached the 6000 mark for the first time on Friday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average topping 44000 before closing just below the milestone. As both stock indexes built on ...

DENVER (KHOU/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - Over 100 people had to evacuate an airplane after one passenger's cell phone battery caught a seat on fire. A Southwest Airlines flight was forced to evacuate ...

If a lithium-ion battery gets too hot or is damaged, it may undergo a chemical reaction called thermal runaway. Credit: Jian Chen/Xi'an University of Science and Technology. Researchers from the ...

A Long Island detective was charged with a hate crime on Wednesday after he called a phone service worker the n-word and spewed “We don’t want you or your kind in the neighborhood” in a ...