Watch A Captivating Segment On The Baffling Physics Of Wildfires
At the Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory, researchers use wind tunnels, combustion chambers, fire-whirl generators and high-speed cameras to study the start, structure and spread of one of nature’s most bewildering phenomena: the wildfire. In “Fire, In Slow Motion,” The Atlantic’s Katherine Wells and Sam Price-Waldman introduce us to some of the researchers working to make…