WASHINGTON (ABC7) — It's an experiment done in classrooms across the country. But as students and teachers discovered three weeks ago at a Fairfax County high school, it can have devastating results.

“The Rainbow Experiment” has long been a popular staple of high school chemistry classes because it features dramatic, colorful bursts of fire that fascinate students. But it’s also extremely ...

Five-year-old Kate Earnest remembered a bang, a flash and then screaming. She and her classmates at The Yellow School, a day school at Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church in the Memorial Villages area, ...

A Manhattan high school graduate described Tuesday about the tremendous guilt she felt after a classmate went up in flames during a botched chemistry experiment that left her with less severe burns on ...