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Engineering materials that can survive extreme thermal environments is a triumph of modern metallurgy. While standard metals ...

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From the outside, firefighter response gear doesn't look terribly high-tech. The coats, pants, gloves and boots don’t differ much from regular versions of the same items. But the makeup of this ...

The most durable, heat-resistant materials ever made could be hiding in plain sight. The U.S. Department of Defense wants to know if minerals and rocks found on Earth and in space hold the secrets of ...

In mid-June, the German Weather Service (DWD) described the record-breaking heat in Germany and Europe as "a heat wave for the history books." The 40-degree-Celsius mark (104 degrees Fahrenheit) was ...

Heat-resistant molds can survive—and even be activated by—pasteurization. Learn where they originate, why detection is ...