Nitrate medications are notorious for being able to trigger airport bomb detection scanners and to alert explosive-sniffing dogs, a reminder of the origins of this extremely useful medication. Let's ...

In some laboratories, a clear, oily liquid is treated less like a reagent and more like contraband, locked away behind blast doors and handled with rituals that look closer to bomb disposal than bench ...

I found several crazy stories about nitroglycerin's (mis)use in East Central Indiana during the gas and oil boom of 1886-1910. One story involves Muncie’s ...

New types of liquid explosives and detonators are difficult to uncover in a passenger's luggage. The problem for airports is that they can no longer look for obvious things like things like timers and ...

a For additional listings of explosives considered important in forensic investigations, see TWGFEX: The Technical Working Group for Fire and Explosions, http://www ...