Liquid explosives, like those allegedly meant for use in the U.K. terror plot, are appealing to terrorists because of their power and common ingredients. Britain says ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The explosive device used by the would-be Detroit bomber contained a widely available - and easily detected - chemical explosive that has a long history of terrorist use, according ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The explosive PETN has been around for a century and is used by everyone from miners to the military, but it took new research by Sandia National Laboratories to begin to discover ...

Using thin films -- no more than a few pieces of notebook paper thick -- of a common explosive chemical, researchers studied how small-scale explosions start and grow. Using thin films -- no more than ...

In Christmas Day 2009, a 23-year-old Nigerian student named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab boarded Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight 253 in Nigeria with more than 80 grams of the plastic explosive ...