Researchers working at Cornell have made a breakthrough discovery that could spell the end of exploding batteries. Several years back, this was an especially big issue. And even back in 2022, we saw ...

The science pros at The King of Random capture exploding missiles and a piñata caught on camera in slow motion.

There are stars exploding all around us. They burst, flash and fade. Some leave traces of their spectacular journeys as supernovae in telescopes. Earth-bound astronomers collect and study the brief, ...

According to the scientists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) of Germany, a certain phenomenon occurs when charging lithium-ion batteries that greatly leads to short circuit and reduced ...

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This photo is the first close-up image of such a distant star ever taken. (Image credit: ESO/K. Ohnaka et al.) For the first time, astronomers have taken a high-quality, zoomed-in photo of a star ...

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An exploding phone seems like a freak accident, but the same chemical properties that make batteries work also make them likely to catch fire. Samsung is learning this the hard way, as it becomes the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists for the first time have spotted the insides of a dying star as it exploded, offering a rare peek into stellar evolution. Stars can live for millions to trillions of years ...

Halloween is less than two weeks away, but the Exploreum Science Center got into the spirit Saturday in downtown Mobile with ...