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Built-in fire extinguishers can prevent battery explosions

Adding fire-suppressing chemicals into batteries can prevent overheating, fires and explosions, cutting the risks for electric vehicles and portable electronics

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Humans

Indigenous Australians have managed land with fire for 11,000 years

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Californian firefighter control centre

Technology

Smoke-spotting AI watches live video to find early signs of wildfire

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Technology

Sheets of fungus could be used as eco-friendly fireproofing for homes

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Flickering flames

Physics

Flames that don't flicker could make engines more efficient

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Firefighters extinguishing a house fire

Technology

Fabric inspired by camel’s hump could protect firefighters from heat

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Lithium-ion batteries

Technology

Gel-coated battery could stop mobile phones catching fire or exploding

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Fire safety app simulates wildfires and shows a route to avoid them

Technology

Fire safety app simulates wildfires and shows a route to avoid them

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Fire

Question

What is fire?

blue flame

Physics

Blue whirl that consumes all fuel it encounters is three flames in one

A mysterious blue whirl that burns fuel efficiently is composed of three separate flames – a discovery that could help us generate the whirl for real-world applications

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Environment

Australia’s wildfires killed 90 per cent of small ground-based animals

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Environment

'Zombie' fires are burning the Arctic after smouldering under snow

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Environment

Rare herb devastated by Australian bush fires saved by seed bank

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Environment

Australia bush fires burned a globally unprecedented area of forest

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