Mercedes EV drivers with a bad case of range anxiety might want to stock up on Ambien, now that the automaker is warning them ...

A good working definition of short-circuiting something is “to force the termination of a process before its conclusion by bypassing one or more steps.” Short-circuiting also usually blows up the ...

WASHINGTON - The Boeing 787 Dreamliner battery that caught fire earlier this month in Boston shows evidence of short-circuiting and a chemical reaction known as "thermal runaway," in which an increase ...

Dendrites – thin conductive filaments that form inside lithium batteries – reduce the life of these cells and are often responsible for them catching fire. Scientists working at the Pacific Northwest ...

This column was written byTrudy Lieberman. If ever there was a motherhood-and-apple-pie issue, reauthorizing the popular State Children's Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP) is it. Yet the Bush ...

DENVER (KDVR) — School district officials are warning students against a social media trend directing them to short-circuit their school-issued laptops after multiple fires were reported in recent ...

Trench-based silicon carbide power MOSFETs (Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors) represent a dramatic improvement in the Figure of Merit (FOM) values of power conversion switching ...

WASHINGTON – Government regulators are far from completing their investigation into a battery fire on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, a top official says, saying the incident is a "very serious air safety ...