Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Rodriguez v. Federal Deposit Insurance Co. is no one’s idea of a blockbuster case. But yesterday’s oral argument in the narrow ...

THIS little book, originally a thesis for the Ph.D. degree of the University of London, is written, according to the author, to dispel the mists which are gathering around our conception of the ...

For almost a century it was thought flammable materials burned because they contained a colourless, odourless, tasteless and weightless substance called phlogiston - the matter of fire. The theory was ...

Chemists used to explain combustion as the release of a mysterious substance, which they named "phlogiston." Only when it came to pinning down the distinctive physical properties of phlogiston did it ...