At a temple in Ancient Olympia, a flame is drawn from the sun to begin its journey to the Winter Games. The choreographed ceremony inspired by ancient Greece is designed to link the original games to ...

A Russian thermal engineering institute has successfully tested the world’s first pulverized coal burner with a variable flame vector. The new type of vortex burner can adjust the flame direction ...

Eternal Flame Falls sits on a bed of shale rocks rich in organic matter. As this matter breaks down, it produces highly flammable natural gas that escapes through cracks in the ground. When you ...

What is a twin flame? Much like a soulmate or a karmic relationship, it’s the kind of union that feels written in the stars. There’s an unexplainable, instant familiarity—like you’ve known each other ...

When natural gas from deep underground reservoirs escapes from cracks in the rock, it can sometimes burn autonomously for thousands of years. Humans have long been fascinated by the mysterious natural ...

Now that he’s Lutheran, the rapper’s music has changed along with his theology. Nearly 15 years ago, Christian hip-hop artist Flame put out his first solo album, Captured. Since then, the Grammy- and ...

NPR is in Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics. For more of our coverage from the games head to our latest updates. Before this year, the Olympic cauldron always sat on the ground as real fire burned ...

Two torches may have lit it to open the Paris Games, but that’s not a fire in the cauldron. By Andrew Keh Andrew Keh went to see the Olympic flame for himself. The Olympic flame isn’t a flame. Well, ...

Welcome to our complete Darkness and Flame: The Dark Side walkthrough! This amazing adventure is full of hidden objects puzzles and tricky mini-games, so it is understandable if you get stuck. Luckily ...