Systems exist to find liquid explosives
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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.
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U.S. scientists say they've devised a new microchip system that can speedily separate and sort biomolecules such as proteins.
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Scientists develop a light, breathable material for hazmat suits that keeps toxins out while letting water vapor escape. This could be the new Gore-Tex. By Cyrus Farivar.
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Logan International Airport yesterday became one of six big US airports testing a new hand-held liquid-explosives detection scanning system.
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To defend against future attacks, airports may soon get new tools to help ID hidden explosives
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A tester for the Transportation Security Administration  slides a simulated explosive into an elastic back support. The mock bomb is as slim as a wallet; its fuse, the size of a cigarette. He eventually makes his way to airport security -- and slips through. The mock bomb goes undetected.
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A one-pound handheld gadget running Windows CE is enlisting for duty with police departments and the armed forces. The Seeker CDU is designed to detect trace amounts of certain chemicals used to make narcotics, explosives and such.
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The New York Times harvested a mighty scoop with its 2,600-word, Oct. 25 lead story about the 380 tons of high explosives missing from Saddam&#39;s Al-Qaqaa military-industrial complex (&quot;Huge Cache of Explosives Vanished From Site in Iraq&quot;).
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The hunt for tiny treasures continues.
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Helium isotopes reveal hidden stores of geothermal energy.
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The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI agree that the homemade explosive devices that have wreaked havoc in Iraq pose a rising threat to the United States. But lawmakers and first responders say the Bush administration has been slow to devise a strategy for countering the weapons and has...
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From production plant to pharmacy, some of the most sought-after drugs will now be tracked by the technology in tiny microchips. It&#39;s already getting the green light from law enforcement.
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THE REPORT: The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed Monday that nearly 380 tons of conventional explosives has gone missing from a former Iraqi military installation.
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Instead of using a chemical rocket, SMART-1 fires a stream of electrically charged atoms of Xenon gas. A similar idea was used by the makers of Star Trek as part of the Starship Enterprise&#39;s propulsion system.
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Single-stranded DNA can be used to identify explosives and other airborne compounds.
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Police investigating the death of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko are searching for radioactive substances.
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On Tuesday, the Department of Water Resources found five pipe bombs in  the California Aqueduct system in Southern California's  San Bernardino County.  Two had been exploded and three were unexploded.