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Wildfires cost billions of dollars and burn millions of acres every year, but we know surprisingly little about how they spread. At the Fire Lab in Missoula, Montana, researchers have learned to reverse-engineer wildfires using wind ...See moreWildfires cost billions of dollars and burn millions of acres every year, but we know surprisingly little about how they spread. At the Fire Lab in Missoula, Montana, researchers have learned to reverse-engineer wildfires using wind tunnels, fire-whirl generators, and giant combustion chambers. They're finding that fire is a mysterious phenomenon, and the physics behind it is often counterintuitive.See less