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A wildfire needs three elements to start: fuel, oxygen and a heat source — what firefighters call the fire triangle.  A flash drought provided the fuel. Strong winds from a passing hurricane supplied the oxygen. A powerline downed in dry grass took care of the rest.   Wildfires engulfed the historic oceanfront town of Lāhainā, Hawaii, …

“I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car.”   —Bruce Springsteen in “Growin’ Up”   Cars have come a long way since Springsteen wrote his iconic song lyric. Adaptive cruise control, automatic emergency braking and hands-free driving are only some of the latest features in new cars, yet the internal …

The University of Texas at Austin (UT) has been a leader in battery and energy storage research since the late John Goodenough, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UT Cockrell School of Engineering, helped invent the lithium-ion battery. Goodenough leaves behind big shoes to fill; however, his successors — over 30 researchers …