DECATUR — Firefighters were kept busy dealing with multiple July 4 late night blazes and they say it’s possible at least two ...

As locals stock up on fireworks this Fourth of July, one business owner wants to help people celebrate all year long. Neon ...

Wondering how fireworks light up the sky, where they came from, and the sheer size of the business behind them? Stacker ...

Colors, sparks, booms and whistles all require different pyrotechnic recipes. chensiyuan/WikimediaCommons, CC BY-SA Paul E.

From a very early age, I’d been fascinated by explosives. The most exciting day of the year for me as a child, with the ...

The story of the Vidalia onion has been described as “fluke to fortune.” In its early days of cultivation, Depression-era farmers were searching for a new cash crop. Moses Coleman, ...

They would apparently “blow up balls of black gunpowder with sticks of dynamite for amusement,” in addition to many other activities that I’m sure they did not come up with when they were in their ...

The carbonized eggshell membrane (CEM) powder with abundant micropores and high porosity is embedded within conventional sulfur cathodes (CEM-S cathodes) as a polysulfide (PS) absorbent for ...

Tiny glass beads brought back by NASA's Apollo 17 astronauts are helping scientists uncover new clues about how the moon erupted billions of years ago. No one expected these glittering bits among the ...