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The ghostly blue flame stunned researchers when it first showed up unexpectedly in a laboratory experiment. Now scientists have determined the structure of this “blue whirl.” Four separate types of ...

Fire may be one of humanity's original innovations, but it is still surprising us hundreds of centuries after the first manmade flames. In 2016 scientists at the University of Maryland stumbled upon ...

We may be one step closer to solving the mystery of the blue whirl flame – a soot-free flame that consumes all the fuel it encounters. The elusive phenomenon was first discovered several years ago by ...

One of its discoverers is now on a science team using supercomputers allocated by the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) to reveal the structure of the blue whirl, a new ...

A recently discovered soot-free flame called a blue whirl - which consumes all fuel it encounters - actually consists of three different flame structures that swirl together into one otherworldly blue ...

“Fire” and “tornado” are probably two of the scariest terms you can stick together. And yet fire tornados, alternatively known as “fire whirls,” exist. They typically happen during wildfires and can ...

A mesmerizing pure blue flame that spins like a top could be the clean burn needed to mop up oil spills in oceans, lakes and rivers. The "blue whirl" was accidentally discovered by a team of American ...