It's 200 years to the day since the birth of Robert Bunsen, the German chemist famous for inventing the ubiquitous Bunsen burner. But Bunsen's scientific legacy is far, far more important than that – ...

Robert Bunsen is most famous for inventing the Bunsen burner, which he technically did not invent. What he’s not famous for is much more interesting. His most altruistic research, which has saved many ...

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 ...

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 ...

My eldest son started secondary school this year and that means his first science labs (in addition to all the other changes of course). I loved school science labs with the scratchy oversized lab ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Internet search giant Google is marking what would have been the 200th birthday of Robert Bunsen, the scientist who developed the Bunsen burner, with an animated Google Doodle on its homepage. The ...

Today on the Google home page you will see a special logo for Robert Bunsen’s 200th birthday. The Google logo is an interactive chemical lab set with a Bunsen burner. Robert Bunsen was the co-inventor ...

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 ...

In 1993, I pursued a pre-nursing degree at Crafton Hills College and took an introductory course in microbiology with a lab component. Tying back long hair was a standard safety practice in the lab.