Spontaneous combustion causes more than 14,000 fires a year, according to the National Fire Protection Association. That’s why everyone should know about the materials that can cause spontaneous ...

A grisly mystery in London has police searching for answers. The Independent reports a 70-year-old man named John Nolan was walking near his home Sept. 17 when he burst into flames. Emergency services ...

A fire that broke out Monday night at the Texarkana Water Utilities composting facility on South State Line Avenue was about ...

In 1725, a mysterious death in the northeastern French town of Rheims attracted considerable attention, both in the legal and the medical world. The burning remains of sixty-three-year-old Jeanne ...

Modern scientists have speculated that a tiny flame, like a burning cigarette, could fall on a sleeping victim and burn them enough to melt subcutaneous fat that would be absorbed by the person’s ...

A large mulch fire sent huge plumes of smoke into the sky over Livonia on Friday morning, prompting fire crews to shut down 7 Mile Road as they worked to extinguish the blaze.

A portion of South Military Highway is closed as crews respond to a large fire in the Bowers Hill area. According to officials, fire crews were called to a large construction ...

There have been many alleged cases of spontaneous human combustion in history — but such accounts tend to rouse suspicion even among the more open-minded of us. How is it possible, after all, for the ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nanometer-sized bubbles containing the gases hydrogen and oxygen can apparently combust spontaneously, although nothing happens in larger bubbles. For the first time, researchers at ...

---going up in flames with no apparent cause---many eyebrows were raised in the scientific regions of the Internet. Apparently the coroner in the case had never heard of the "wick effect," in which a ...