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A new study out Monday seems to confirm anecdotal reports from health care workers: Emergency rooms across the U.S.…

More than 100 emergency sirens blanket the City of San Francisco, ready to warn locals in the event of a flood, a…

Hurricanes, earthquakes, elected officials—there are plenty of legitimate reasons to prepare for the end of…

Your phone can entertain you, inform you, and keep you connected to the people that matter the most—but it can also…

As I sit here, in my calm, non-snowpocalpysed city reading Twitter, there's one definite theme emerging from…

Some bad decisions were made while backpacking The Lost Coast and a buddy ended up alone, in a storm, after dark,…

It would appear that we've finally reached the phase of UAV development where researchers get tired of coming up…

While GPS has enabled a degree of autonomous function in many modern maritime vessels, ships are very much unable to…

As more and more cities battle urban sprawl by building taller and more densely-packed buildings, threats from fire,…

Just this past Friday, the FCC voted to require all mobile carriers and "interconnected text providers" (i.e.…

BioLite's line of twig-burning, gadget-powering stoves has already cemented the brand as every wilderness geek's…

Before the 1960s, the United States didn't have one universal phone number for Americans to call if they needed help…

A Boeing 767-300 had to abort its landing at Barcelona airport when an Airbus A340 suddenly crossed the runway as it…

This is US Air Force Captain Mark Gongol and his usual ride, a B-1B Lancer. But on December 30, 2013, Gongol wasn't…

When firefighters have to enter a burning building, much of their job still involves blindly feeling their way…

If it's not birds, it's cows. Over the weekend, 390 cows were being transported by Boeing 747. As the plane was…

You've heard the cautionary tales about dialing 911 on your cell phone. A call about missing children in Illinois get…

On Wednesday, a sudden gas explosion leveled two buildings in Harlem, killing at least seven people. Hordes of…

New Yorkers were shocked on Wednesday morning when reports of a building collapse in Harlem hit the wires. It didn't…

Starchitects don't build 'em like they used to—and now one's getting sued for it. Chris Christie remains in troubled…