The U.S. Chemical Safety Board's recommendation Monday cited the Sept. 3 blaze at the Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum, and it came on the same day an experiment involving methanol burned four ...

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A dazzling show of fire and color can make science come alive for young students, but it can also inflict serious and painful injuries, as flash fires in Nevada and Colorado showed this month.

Dane Neuberger was front and center when the classroom science experiment blew up, setting his face on fire. "I was on fire," said 15-year-old Neuberger, who is being treated at Hennepin County ...