Canada Day is coming up and numerous fireworks shows will no doubt be occurring across the country. Here’s the amazing science behind these delightful displays. On the night of Tuesday, July 1 ...

A Guinness World Record for the largest aerial firework shell was set on New Year's Eve in the United Arab Emirates, northeast of Dubai, where party organizers launched a 2,397-pound explosive.

The most basic firework shell can be thought of as a nested, up-scaled firecracker. A small firecracker known as a burst charge is placed at the centre of a large hollow paper tube or sphere, along ...