The ghostly blue flame stunned researchers when it first showed up unexpectedly in a laboratory experiment. Now scientists have determined the structure of this “blue whirl.” Four separate types of ...

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 ...

“Fire” and “tornado” are probably two of the scariest terms you can stick together. And yet fire tornados, alternatively known as “fire whirls,” exist. They typically happen during wildfires and can ...

A new type of flame produced on the International Space Station (ISS) doesn’t just look cool with its spherical blue glow—it is cool. Cool flames, which burn at temperatures much lower than ...