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 ...

WASHINGTON -- British authorities who thwarted a terrorist plot to blow up American airliners over the Atlantic said Thursday that the plan relied on smuggling liquid explosives aboard the aircraft in ...

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WE had lately under our notice a work on explosives which dealt with their manufacture more from an engineer's point of view than from that of a chemist, and consequently the various appliances were ...

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 ...

A Houston man who tried to blow up a Confederate statue in Hermann Park last year has been sentenced to six and a half years in federal prison. The Department of Justice said Andrew Schneck, 26, was ...

Blasting explosives like gunpowder, nitroglycerin, and dynamite all work well for carving a tunnel through a mountain. The dense rock walls can support themselves, and they won't collapse into the ...

Gunpowder was first used in 1679, to build an underground section of the Canal du Midi, a canal connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The tunnel was 157 meters long. Nitroglycerin ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — A K9 with the Greenville Police Department has passed away. K9 Nitro was an explosive detection dog for the department. It was said that Nitro had an exceptional temperament ...

Air travelers leaving the United Kingdom on Thursday faced the strictest security measures in years: iPods, cellular phones, laptops, and even books and magazines were no longer permitted as carry-on ...