Four people were displaced after a fire in Silver Spring on Thursday afternoon caused by spontaneous combustion.

Spontaneous combustion is a sometimes mysterious and often misunderstood or misdiagnosed combustion of flammable materials. I am sure that many fires have been blamed on spontaneous combustion that ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A home valued at half a million dollars caught fire on Tuesday night and the Baton Rouge Fire Department says the cause was spontaneous combustion. Crews responded to a house ...

Zuhair Munir, who will deliver the Senate’s Distinguished Research Lecture on May 2, opens a Spark Plasma Sintering Apparatus, a machine that creates and consolidates materials under high ...

A national environmental group has accused the coal- and natural gas-fired electric generator Brunner Island is harming people and animals by violating federal regulations near its East Manchester ...

One of the most interesting parts of the job of being a Fire Fighter is determining how a fire started. One of the most important factors involved in that determination is the form of the material ...

The European Union is abandoning its plan to require all new cars to be zero emission from 2035, replacing the hard ban on ...

NOTE: With this issue of HOT ROD, your Shop Series begins a slightly different and more comprehensive approach to the discussion of engine and vehicle basics. In the coming months, you'll find a frank ...

A fire at a building under construction on Arizona State University's Tempe campus Tuesday night was caused by the "spontaneous combustion" of materials being used to insulate the roof, university ...