Environment
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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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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Physics
Flames that don’t flicker could make engines more efficient
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Technology
Fabric inspired by camel’s hump could protect firefighters from heat
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Technology
Gel-coated battery could stop mobile phones catching fire or exploding
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Technology
Fire safety app simulates wildfires and shows a route to avoid them
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What is fire?
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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