More outrageousness from our lonesome friends of science. What Lake of Fire?

Researchers have run the first large-scale field test of deliberately generated fire whirls over crude oil floating on water, and the results challenge conventional thinking about oil-spill cleanup.

Researchers from Texas A&M and UC Berkeley have successfully conducted the first large-scale experiment using fire whirls to clean up offshore oil spills. The tornado-like spinning-flame method could ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oil spills have a new whirlwind solution. Disasters like Exxon Valdez in 1989 and Deepwater Horizon in 2010 are difficult to clean ...

In the frantic hours following an offshore oil spill, emergency responders face a destructive decision: let the oil spread or ignite it. Once ignited, it creates an ‘in-situ’ fire pool that stops the ...

April marks the onset of intense tornado activity in the U.S., driven by warm, moist Gulf air clashing with cooler masses.

The research team engineered a setup of three 16-foot-tall walls placed in a triangular pattern, to twist airflow around an ignited crude-oil-coated pool of water. The result: a nearly 17-foot-tall ...