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 ...

Past a threshold, adding more physical sensitizers to a liquid explosive diminishes the effect of the chemical sensitizer.

U.S. officials are worried that Al Qaeda has a new liquid explosive technique that can't be detected by current security measures, according to the latest trickle of U.S. official-sourced stories in ...

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 ...

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BOSTON — While the process isn't perfect, scanning machines do exist to detect liquid explosives like the ones purportedly at the heart of the terrorist plot broken up this week. But don't expect the ...

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