You stick them into a birthday cake, stand back and revel in the brilliant shower of sparks. What you are witnessing are glowing metal particles, usually aluminum, but iron titanium, zinc or...
A long, long time ago, before electricity, fire was the only weapon against darkness. Ancient civilizations made use of torches but by 4500 B.C. oil lamps made out of shells or hollow rocks were in...
The Royal Institution was founded in 1800 by leading British scientists under the guidance of Benjamin Thompson 鈥渇or diffusing the knowledge and facilitating the general introduction of useful...