Despite advances in materials, sensors, and safety systems, modern aircraft can still be destroyed by a surprising threat: their own fuel tanks. Investigations into disasters such as Pan Am 214 and ...

In January 1945, during World War II, American intelligence officers examined an intact Japanese bomber and uncovered a ...

It begins with a catastrophic injury: a 22-year-old Hong Kong law student burned at a fraternity gathering in Massachusetts. The cause was 190-proof grain alcohol—a product whose warning label ...

The tanker was pulling out of the Circle K on Gallatin Pike in Inglewood when it appeared to scrape against something going ...

31 December 1968 Concorde’s Soviet rival, the Tupolev Tu-144, took off for the first time from a runway to the side of the ...

A video from Victoria’s bushfire-ravaged Central Highlands has left viewers scratching their heads in disbelief as an ...

Some jobs sound glamorous. These are not those jobs. These are the roles people picture as dangerous, depressing, gross, or ...

Scientists tested rice under record heatwaves and found that hotter soils by themselves did not cause dangerous spikes in ...

Since Republicans hold the White House and both houses of Congress, the prime task in 2026 is to avoid messing things up. The Senate majority is not filibuster-proof, and the House majority is so thin ...

On Nov. 23, 1976, the Spokane Police Department received a note, handwritten by some person or group calling themselves ...

The U.S. is forecast to add a lot less power from renewables than analysts previously expected. The potential slowdown comes as electricity demand is rising faster than it has in decades.