SERS nose arrays based on a signal differentiation approach for TNT gas detection

TNT, a well-known explosive, is highly toxic and difficult to decompose, making the detection of trace amounts of residual TNT in the environment a topic of significant research importance. Label-free surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) has been demonstrated to be capable Read More …

An autonomous microbial sensor enables long-term detection of TNT explosive in natural soil

Engineered microbes can sense target chemicals and respond with programmed actions, using cell sensors to detect specific chemicals and genetic circuits to convert regulatory signals into observable outcomes1,2,3. Microbial sensors have the potential to carry out autonomous, long-term environmental monitoring Read More …

Crimea: Supporter of Ukrainian neo-Nazis possessing explosives apprehended in Alushta

FSB employees detained a supporter of Ukrainian neo-Nazis involved in the illicit possession of explosive devices and substances, the press service of the FSB Directorate for the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol told journalists on Monday. “It Read More …

Liquid Explosives Return To Terror Theatre In Jammu And Kashmir

Liquid explosives appear to have returned to the militancy theatre of Jammu and Kashmir after 15 years with a consignment of three bottles of a white liquid recently being air-dropped by drones entering from Pakistan along the international border in Read More …

Syria: ISIS weapons manufacturing facility found in Raqqa

The Internal Security Forces (Asayish) found on Sunday a weapons manufacturing facility containing a quantity of explosives and other military materials belonging to the Islamic State (ISIS), in Raqqa. The facility contained military materials, including a chemical mask device, one Read More …

US military explosives vanish, emerge in civilian world

The Marine Corps demolition specialist was worried — about America, and about the civil war he feared would follow the presidential election. And so, block by block, he stole 13 pounds (6 kilograms) of C4 plastic explosives from the training Read More …

Technology Catching Up with Bomb-Sniffing Dogs

With each terrorist attack on another airport, train station or other public space, the urgency to find new ways to detect bombs before they’re detonated ratchets up. Chemical detection of explosives is a cornerstone of aviation security. Typically called “trace Read More …

Bomb-sniffing ‘cyborg locusts’ advance under Navy-funded research

Navy-funded researchers have discovered that a locust’s sensitive “horns” can distinguish between the scents of TNT and other explosives — a development that one day could herald the deployment of bomb-sniffing, electronically augmented bug swarms. The research by a team Read More …

Italy: Bomb destroys Carabinieri cop’s car in Bari

A bomb went off overnight under a car owned by a Carabinieri police officer in Ruvo di Puglia, in the southern province of Bari, totally destroying the vehicle. No one was injured in the attack on the Fiat Sedici, which Read More …

Bishnupur: IED defused

A team of Manipur Police Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad has safely defused an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) found by the personnel of 42 Assam Rifles, Sendra post beneath the culvertthat connects Moirang and Tronglaobi while patrolling, this morning. To Read More …