A childhood pyromaniac grows up, becomes a chemist and makes sparks fly in the lab. Matt Cline, 43, is a chemical engineering lab instructor at Carnegie Mellon University, and he’s been playing with ...

Fireworks have become a hallmark of celebrations around the world. Pierre Thebault looks beyond the bright colours and loud bangs, to the array of scientific methods that pyrotechnicians use to ...

As you settle down on your blanket to watch the July Fourth fireworks, you might be wondering: How do they make all those amazing colors and shapes? We're here to tell you! A firework is generally a ...

Computerized firing systems have been around for a few decades as well, according to Kyle Kepley, who developed ShowSim and is also an award-winning pyrotechnics expert. “Prior to that, electrically ...

We’ve already given you the basics about how fireworks are able to get to be just about any color you can find in a Crayola box (save for those vivid blues), and how they manage to blow up into ooooh- ...