Hong Kong is ringing in the New Year with a HK$14 million fireworks display and light show over Victoria Harbour, but how do the colourful pyrotechnic devices actually work? Young Post’s ...

A firework is generally a tube or sphere holding explosives with a time-delay fuse leading to it. The explosives typically contain small balls (often about an inch in diameter) of colored ...

When most of us think "fireworks," we think of brilliant bursts of light and color we've seen paint a night sky. But such bursts are merely the spectacular end of fireworks that likely took ...

Further Explorations Online (Worksheet 4) ((30 -45 minutes) Students will work in groups to research fireworks and find three amazing facts or stories that they would have included in the article ...