Since 2000, wildfires have destroyed an average of seven million acres each year. And with rising global temperatures from climate change, the threat is growing exponentially. Researchers at labs and ...

Ya-Ting Liao, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, won a joint award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) ...

After eight years of experimenting with flames in space, NASA lit a fire inside a cargo spacecraft for the last time and sent its Saffire experiment toward a burning reentry into Earth’s atmosphere.

Candles are useful for many things; light, for instance, they can also make a room smell nice, and they can definitely set the mood, but we are not setting the mood today. We are going to do science ...

A Cygnus cargo ship launching toward the International Space Station (ISS) this weekend will carry an experiment designed to improve fire safety on moon and Mars missions. Called SoFIE (Solid Fuel ...