Eight-year-old Joseph Erskine needed weeks of treatment and a skin graft after a toy burst across his chest and hand - releasing a hot gel that can stick to the skin and cause severe burns. A warning ...

The moment of truth is just about here. The Strait of Hormuz has reopened, for now, and Middle Eastern countries that shut off their oil wells during the war (the term is actually “shut in”) are about ...

Newly found immune cells called ‘ruptoblasts’ explode when triggered, ejecting toxic chemicals capable of delivering death to surrounding cells in just minutes. The cells’ discoverers say that this ...

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The unsettling boom, rumble and shaking heard and felt across Greater Boston Saturday afternoon may have come from a meteor. First reports of the sound came at 2:11 p.m. Saturday, according to 1 ...

Sometimes a shot can have impacts far beyond its intended target. Three eagles have died of lead poisoning so far this year after rescue attempts at Wild Skies Raptor Center. 3.6 million years ago, ...

Firefighters have been working through the weekend to cool a chemical tank “literally on the edge” of exploding in Southern California as they worked to avert a disastrous “worst-case” scenario, the ...

Fire officials issued urgent evacuation orders Friday for a Southern California community as emergency crews scrambled to manage an enormous chemical tank that is "actively in crisis" and threatening ...

A Hollywood woman narrowly escaped injury when the electric wheelchair she purchased from a thrift store exploded in her driveway minutes after she moved it outside. Alexandra Anaya's home security ...

With a simple switch of a magazine, the Drone Round is claimed to turn a standard NATO caliber small arm into a drone-killing weapon that combines the scattershot of a shotgun with the speed, power ...

DENVER — Tiny, exploding black holes might explain one of the biggest mysteries about how the universe, in its current form, came to be. In the cosmos, matter is much more common than antimatter. But ...

Have you ever been drifting off to sleep when suddenly you hear what sounds like a gunshot, a door slamming, or an explosion inside your head? You jolt awake, heart pounding, sit upright in bed, but ...