Fire has mesmerized us for as long as we’ve known how to control it. It warms us, feeds us, and lights our homes. But ...

On a hot September day in Texas Hill Country, the fire picked up, its flames popping the Jeep’s burning tires and airbags like plastic chip bags. Thirty or 40 feet away, a crew of firefighters, law ...

It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames — cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our ...

Given that it’s one of humanity’s oldest tools, you might assume we know all there is to know about fire. And sure, we know a lot: As hot air near the base of a flame rises, gravity pulls in colder, ...

It takes sophisticated science to prevent fires caused by lithium-ion batteries and blazes that start where wild and developed lands meet This series was created for UL Research Institutes by ...

Inside China’s Tiangong space station, astronauts carried out a remarkable experiment to observe how fire behaves in the absence of gravity. When they lit a match, the flame appeared entirely ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The newest exhibition at the Cape Fear Museum of History and Science, “Fire!”, showcases the history and science of fire. The exhibit opened on May 20 and will remain on view ...

When Nazi planes dropped fire bombs on London last summer, they restored an age-old weapon to use after centuries of neglect. Last week a leading expert on this ancient weapon revealed that the Nazis ...

Stretching from the western coasts of North and South America through Alaska, Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia and New ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Early in his career, firefighter and Purdue Global professor Jonathan Mead developed a training academy for his local fire department and surrounding departments to use. This ...