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Remember the burning bat signal in The Dark Knight Rises? Wasn’t it cool? Now you can do a miniature version of it, only on a piece of paper instead of a bridge. Paper is far more portable, anyway.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. There would be no fireworks without minerals. An aerial fireworks ...

AT present the only observations on the thermal annealing of chemical radiation damage appear to be some measurements on potassium nitrate reported in 1955 1. These measurements did not include ...