Georgia Tech is an engineering school at heart—and on Saturday its game-winning field goal had all the makings of a perfectly executed science project. With 25 seconds left in a tie game against No.

Fire drills aren’t just for school students. For the men and women who fight fires on a regular basis, a drill is a chance to test out the logistics of their department’s response, to see what does ...

Rule 1. The fire drill must never feel useful. It may be a proven way to help save people’s lives, to say nothing of being a legal requirement in many workplaces. But it is important that people ...