Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...
IN the issue of Ainbix of December 1937, Dr. D. J. Lysaght publishes an interesting account of Robert Hooke's theory of combustion, which he outlined in “Micrographia” (1665) and amplified in his ...
The Christmas tree, that staple of holiday merriment, seems like it would be a prime source of home fires. For instance, Christmas trees contain some flammable compounds, as well as plenty of organic ...