The air in airliner cabins is typically kept very dry. It has to be, in order to stop condensation from accumulating within the plane. Unfortunately, this also dries out passengers' mucus membranes, ...

Hovering at around 20 percent, the relative humidity in aircraft is kept very low to keep condensation from building up in the cabin. The downside for passengers and the crew is that this dries out ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio–Scientists at Battelle have filed a patent application for a device that shoots out rings of gas–an invention that could aid firefighters in suppressing smoke as well as delivering a ...

A vortex gun which can fire doughnut-shaped rings of electrically charged gas could be by firefighters to clear hallways clogged with smoke. The gun fires rings which revolve as they travel but, like ...