During an emergency situation, sometimes you have to come up with alternative methods to get the job done. This human powered cell phone charger is a great example. Using just a few ordinary ...

Cell phone towers are something we miss when we’re out of range, but imagine how we’d miss them if they had been destroyed by disastrous weather. In such emergencies it is more important than ...

But mobile phone service doesn’t always work. (Landlines also fail sometimes.) For safety in emergencies like outages of electrical power or cell service, should we have a landline to call for help?

Smartphones which did not receive a nationwide emergency alert test will be part of a review into the trial of the alarm. While millions of people across the UK heard an alarm on their phones at ...