Aquila Magazine Science of Fire Back Issue

Zombie fires - forest fires methane deposits peat boreal forest pyrophytic permafrost moss smokejumpers / Make wing-flapping Phoenix / Salamanders fact and fiction asbestos skin disease Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans Bsal olms Proteus anguinus / Extinguish this - fire triangle make fire extinguisher make fire blanket fire retardant fabrics / Defying gravity with fire - candle experiment water level rises in upturned jam jar Law of Conservation of Mass combustion / How hot is hot? Temperatures - Big Bang centre of Sun centre of Earth eruption temperature of Kilauea cooked chicken Death Valley human body space Absolute zero superconductivity superfluidity Bose-Einstein condensate thermoscopes Fahrenheit Celsius Kelvin / Fire hawks - Australian indigenous peoples' tales of birds using fire ethnobiologists firebreaks / Great balls of fire - how fire behaves in zero gravity - NASA International Space Station Flame Extinguishment Experiment (FLEX) spherical flames Zero Gravity Research Facility Microgravity Science Glovebox Spacecraft Fire Safety Experiments (Saffire) project / Some like it hotter - chilli peppers capsaicinoids sensory neurons polymodal nociceptors fight or flight response natural selection Scoville Scale Make chilli 'jam' / The Very Serious Incident story Part 2 by Ruth Clarke-Irons / Win Chilli hampers x 3 (chilli growing kit with seeds for four different varieties, a bottle of chilli ketchup, a bottle of sweet chilli sauce and a bar of Madagascan chilli chocolate)