With air conditioners working overtime during increasing summer heat, some homeowners are turning to a low-cost, ...

Parabolic reflectors are pretty handy devices. Whether you’re building a microwave antenna or a long-distance directional microphone, suitable commercial dishes aren’t that hard to come by. But a big, ...

APS told 12News that over 500 people were without power at 3:15 p.m. Tuesday afternoon; the outage was due to a mylar balloon ...

Metalized Mylar “space blankets” are sold as a survivalist’s accessory, primarily due to their propensity for reflecting heat. They’re pretty cheap, and [HamJazz] has performed some experiments on ...

(Phys.org)—A small team of researchers at Harvard University has found that crumpled sheets of Mylar hold a memory of how long they were crumpled. In their paper published in the journal Physical ...

Nearly 4,000 households lost power in Southern California this week. The culprit? A shiny balloon, utility officials say. "We have thousands of these outages every year — it's a big problem," a ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...