A fire alarm jolts you from your office desk, and you head for the nearest exit. But what if the closest exit has already ...
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, ...
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) scientists and engineers recently enhanced the capabilities of NIST's computer fire modeling software, a powerful suite of tools used worldwide in ...
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 ...
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 ...