The U.S. Army Research Laboratory's Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Propulsion made an historic first with its experiment in a gas turbine combustor using X-rays. The data will help advance ...

Spontaneous combustion might be real, and pigs might help us figure out why it happens One scientist is using pigs to try and understand why and how humans might burst into flames.

The U.S. Army Research Laboratory’s Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Propulsion made an historic first with its experiment in a gas turbine combustor using X-rays. The data will help advance gas ...

Officials Warn of Spontaneous Combustion Risk of Linseed Oil and Other Common Household Products Oil-based wood stains and linseed oil can burn without any spark.

But in Europe in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, upwards of a dozen cases of supposed spontaneous combustion (and potentially as many as 200, depending on who you ask) were reported or described ...

Through coal combustion experiments and high-precision sulfur isotope analysis, the researchers drew the conclusion that particulate matter from coal combustion is one of the main sources of haze ...

The majority of modern cars run on a combustion engine, patented way back in 1876. Here are the different types of combustion engines and how each one works.

A character in Charles Dickens' Bleak House burns to death without any apparent reason. Human spontaneous combustion is a belief which has been around for centuries but does it really exist?

Combustion in microgravity has been the subject of numerous experiments on the ISS, but usually using a specially-designed combustion integrated rack, keeping fire isolated and contained.