Blue whirls are a swirling flame phenomenon that evolves from a chaotic fire whirl and burns with nearly soot-free combustion. Supercomputer simulations have revealed the flame structure and flow ...

Fire may be one of humanity's original innovations, but it is still surprising us hundreds of centuries after the first manmade flames. In 2016 scientists at the University of Maryland stumbled upon ...

Lightning struck a bourbon warehouse, setting fire to a cache of 800,000 gallons of liquor in the Bardstown countryside of Kentucky in 2003. Some of it spilled into a nearby creek, spawning a massive ...