In 1937, natural gas had no added odor. When a leak filled the crawlspace beneath a Texas school, no one detected the danger. A simple electrical switch ignited the trapped gas, killing 270 students ...

The agency released a critical report that puts the Starliner incident at same mistake level assigned to the fatal Columbia ...

NASA leadership on Thursday outlined how 2024’s glitch-plagued Boeing Starliner mission jeopardized astronaut welfare and the ...

Without a shared mental model of what an agent is, people can’t decompose it. And if it can’t be decomposed, security can’t be designed around it. The disasters make headlines. More commonly, though, ...

Nearly a month ago, a DC water pipe failure spewed millions of gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac. Now, state lawmakers want answers.

The head of DC Water, whose agency oversees the sewer line that collapsed and spilled more than 240 million gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac River last month, previously played a prominent role ...

In the frantic hours following an offshore oil spill, emergency responders face a destructive decision: let the oil spread or ignite it. Once ignited, it creates an "in-situ" fire pool that stops the ...

In the Lost Science series, scientists whose jobs or funding have been cut by the Trump administration tell their stories.

She was just 9 weeks old when she was lowered to safety in a mail sack, surviving the worst maritime disaster in history.

In the rural community of Jangada, in the municipality of ​​Brumadinho in Brazil’s Minas Gerais state, the water that supplies local families comes from springs that emerge onsite. In a Youtube video ...

Black voices from the south suburbs share their thoughts on which deceased and living African Americans inspired them.

After 90 years of using injection wells to bury wastewater, including the past 13 years as the world’s biggest producer of oil and gas, the United States has a profound pollution crisis. The oil and ...