Reporting from Washington — New airport security procedures that have stirred the emotions of air travelers — full-body scans and aggressive pat-downs — were largely designed to detect an explosive ...

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A vendor shows walkie-talkie devices without batteries at an electronic store in Sidon BEIRUT (Reuters) -The batteries of the walkie-talkies used by Lebanese armed group Hezbollah that blew up this ...

Materials scientists in Germany have developed an extremely sensitive explosives sensor that is capable of detecting even slight traces of the high-explosive chemical compound pentaerythritol ...

The explosive PETN has been around for a century and is used by everyone from miners to the military, but it took new research to begin to discover key mechanisms behind what causes it to fail at ...

charged the alleged Christmas Day terrorist with attempting to destroy an airplane. said 23-year-old Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had a device containing a high explosive attached to his body.

Doctors use it to dilate the arteries of patients with angina. Terrorists like it for a very different reason. PETN, or pentaerythritol tetranitrate, is the vital ingredient in Semtex, which was the ...

A powerful plastic explosive was found inside the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced on Friday in the House, which unanimously ...

ESCONDIDO, Calif., Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Searches of a California house where a blast injured a landscaper last week yielded blasting caps and a potent plastic explosive, sheriff's officers said. Among the ...

In a forest clearing at the end of a steep gravel road, UB geologist Andrew Harp poured sand into a hole loaded with dynamite-like explosive charges. It was a quiet day. Tall grasses rose in the ...

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BEIRUT (Reuters) -The batteries of the walkie-talkies used by Lebanese armed group Hezbollah that blew up this week were laced with a highly explosive compound known as PETN, a Lebanese source ...