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 ...

Do your students get nervous using the Bunsen burner the first time? Maybe you are the teacher start getting anxious knowing there is a lab coming up where Bunsen burners are used! Try out my ...

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 ...

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 ...

When microbiologist Hannah Gavin started a faculty position at Providence College two years ago, her lab was assigned to a new building. This meant having a say in what type of equipment she could put ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bunsen burner license as an incentive for students who can safely use the bunsen burners in a lab. There are two variants of this document. The first one allows a box in the top left corner add the ...

A Bunsen burner, named after Robert Bunsen, is a kind of gas burner used as laboratory equipment; it produces a single open gas flame, and is used for heating, sterilization, and combustion. The gas ...