DHS S&T puts special focus on airport security checkpoints. (AZ-BLT/EnvatoElements photo) The Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has always placed a special focus on aviation security. That’s ...

Chinese scientists have developed a surprisingly simple method involving steamed buns (mantou) to increase the overall performance of CL-20, the world's most powerful non-nuclear explosive. According ...

A device created at a British university could provide an answer to safeguarding the public from explosive devices. ExDtect – the brainchild of Loughborough University professor John Tyrer – can ...

Securesearch Inc. manufactures a series of fiber-tip marking pens, each containing microtrace amounts of different explosive particles, or one of four pseudo-drug simulants, in a volatile solvent.

Implant Sciences announced that it has completed the development of its residue detection systems product and that the product will be commercially available in the first quarter of 2003. The ...

A small NASA spacecraft, dedicated solely to the study of high energy processes in gigantic explosions in the atmosphere of the Sun, is scheduled to be launched early next week. Although the 293 kg ...

A SMALL discrepancy has sparked a big “if”. Physicists who spent 10 years weighing the W boson, one of the fundamental particles that make up our universe, say it is 0.1 per cent heavier than expected ...