A shotgun’s payload of pellets flies downrange in an expanding, lengthening swarm. The choke in the gun’s muzzle determines the height and width of that swarm. “Choke” is the taper in the ...

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Nine million people have been left choking on toxic, putrid air in the most polluted city on Earth. Vietnam’s capital Hanoi topped the list of the most polluted major cities for the first time ...

A hospital patient died after being taken off life support when staff mistakenly asked the wrong family if they wanted to pull the plug, according to a lawsuit. David Wells was unconscious and not ...

China is set to restrict exports of key electric car battery parts as Beijing gears up for a trade war with the US under Donald Trump. Technology used to process lithium and gallium – critical ...

An emerging consensus among U.S. and European security services holds that accidents were the cause of damage to Baltic ...

An undersea fiber optic cable between Latvia and Sweden was damaged on Sunday, likely as a result of external influence, Latvia said, triggering an investigation by local and NATO maritime forces ...

On Christmas morning, Estonia’s power grid operators got an unwanted surprise: The Estlink 2 power cable linking them to Finland had failed. The outage left only the Estlink 1 cable in operation ...

With Chinese ships suspected to have cut key undersea communications cables around the world, a Newsweek review of Chinese-language patent applications shows that engineers in China invented ...

Subsea communications cables might be one of the most underrated yet most important parts of the global economy – but they are also among the most vulnerable and open to disruption. The cables ...