The explosive PETN has been around for a century and is used by everyone from miners to the military, but it took new research to begin to discover key mechanisms behind what causes it to fail at ...

BERGERAC, France (Reuters) - Automated systems splutter as raw materials are fed into the machines to begin the process of creating highly-explosive pellets ready to be harnessed for use in thousands ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roughly 30 tons of ammonium nitrate, a chemical used as fertilizer and to make explosives, vanished during railway transport last ...

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 ...