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Imagine waking up tomorrow to a world without power.  No lights.  No phones.  No internet. No refrigeration. Within days, grocery stores are stripped bare. Within weeks, hospitals close.  Within months, millions are dead.  That isn’t science fiction.  It is the very real danger of an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, and it is what keeps a national security expert awake at night.

An electromagnetic pulse (EMP) is a burst of electromagnetic energy that can disrupt or destroy electronic equipment and

After a nationwide outage last week left tens of thousands of frustrated AT&T and Verizon customers without wireless cellphone service, many were left wondering what caused the interruption.

Faulty equipment? Hackers? Solar flares?

As it turns out, the answer was bad coding on the part of AT&T, the company said late last week.  Before that announcement, rumors circulated online that solar flares might've been responsible for the outage, which caught the attention of scientists at the National Oc