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Fire-Detecting Wallpaper Turns Entire Rooms Into A Better Smoke Detector
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, and that’s how most alarm systems are able to detect and warn of trouble. But Chinese researchers have developed a new kind of wallpaper, using ingredients found in bones and teeth, that sounds the alarm when heat and flames are detected, turning every wall in a room into a potential…
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California’s Thomas Fire Is Now The Largest Wildfire In Official State History
Southern California’s Thomas fire is now officially the largest in modern state history, Cal Fire announced late Friday night, after surpassing the 110,480-plus hectare Cedar fire from 2003.
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Northern California Wildfires Death Toll Rises To 38
The 15 separate wildfires that ravaged northern California last week claimed 38 lives, the L.A. Times reports and scorched an astonishing 220,000 acres.
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Fire And Explosives Make Falling Dominoes Far More Interesting
Video: We’ve been told our entire lives not to play with fire. But whoever coined that expression never stopped to think about how flames and explosions could make falling dominoes even more captivating to watch.