Fireworks masters manufacture their creations by hand, including the hundreds of stars that go into a single firework. They mix carefully measured ingredients like perchlorate and black powder ...

Dozens of families were displaced after an evacuation order was placed Thursday night following a massive explosion inside a Pacoima home.

The world of warfare was revolutionized by the development of black powder, fireworks, cannons, and the like. You don’t need any of that chemical nonsense to just have fun, though, as this ...

New Year and fireworks. Pop! Bang! Whooo! Boom! We love them. These are the sounds of celebration. Although the basic recipe and techniques used in preparing the black powder (gun powder) in ...

After the fireworks show, a stampede occurred as people tried to leave what today is the Place de la Concorde, and approximately 800 people were killed. Historians believe that black powder ...

The chemistry of a fireworks show is a tried and true sequence of events. First, a base of black powder ignites to shoot the firework into the sky, and lights a fuse on fire. Once the firework is ...

some of which is black powder, which is known to be used in construction of illegal homemade fireworks,” Los Angeles Police Officer Drake Madison said in an email response Friday. “They are ...