THE centuries-old myth that people can spontaneously combust is real – and the evidence is there to prove it, according to one prominent scientist. Author and biology boffin Brian Ford says ...

Bizarre cases through the years of humans spontaneously combusting and dying have led to questions and theories about these incidents. In the latest episode of TMZ’s "Strange and Suspicious," a panel ...

Nanometer-sized bubbles containing the gases hydrogen and oxygen can apparently combust spontaneously, although nothing happens in larger bubbles. For the first time, researchers have demonstrated ...

Brzeski's Spontaneous Combustion was inspired by a physicist's lecture on fires, which he ended with the statement: “but, ladies and gentlemen, in reality a fire is nothing else than matter changing ...

A recent rash of fire calls caused by spontaneous combustion has area fire officials shaking their heads at the rarity of several in a row. The act itself seems mysterious and complicated — a fire ...

As if Western Washington residents unaccustomed to sunshine and hot weather didn’t have enough to deal with — sunglasses? sunscreen? water bottle? — add another hazard to the list: spontaneous ...

Firefighters in Fort Collins responded to two unrelated fires May 12 they say likely started from spontaneous combustion.

Four people were displaced after a fire in Silver Spring on Thursday afternoon caused by spontaneous combustion.