Tag: Pyrotechnics
Yes, fireworks prices are skyrocketing, but there should be plenty of...
Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University
If you’re looking forward to shooting off bottle rockets and Roman candles this Fourth...
How do fireworks work? A pyrotechnics chemist explains the science behind...
Paul E. Smith, Purdue University
For many people around the world, the very first moments of the new year...
Why are so many people lighting off fireworks?
Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University
The number of fireworks being lit off at night is out of control this year.
While people often light off fireworks...
Red, white but rarely blue – the science of fireworks colors,...
Paul E. Smith, Purdue University
In the earliest days of the United States, John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail about the celebration of independence,...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
