Every high school chemist has no doubt fiddled with a Bunsen burner—but where did the apparatus get its name? Science historian Howard Markel talks about the German chemist Robert Bunsen, and why his ...

Today is National Bunsen Burner Day, a good time to explore the device's connection to Cedar Rapids. Bunsen burners are used in laboratories to produce an open gas flame for heating and sterilization.

Anyone who has walked in to a high school science classroom across the globe remembers the first time they saw a Bunsen burner – one of the first awestruck moments of our youth – the stuff of every ...

As a rule, stories about Bunsen burners probably aren't that entertaining. They are, after all, pieces of lab equipment, which makes them inherently boring to anyone who thinks of labs as ...