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National Defense
March 2007
Grace Jean |
U.S. Airports Still Lack Technologies to Detect Liquid Explosives Despite known terrorist threats, it could be years before airports in the United States are equipped with scanners to detect liquid explosives hidden on passengers and inside carry-on luggage.   |
National Defense
March 2007
Grace Jean |
Focus on Checked Baggage Screening Has Detracted From Aviation Security Aviation security analysts say an explosives screening measure has diverted funds, attention, and resources from passenger and carry-on baggage screening checkpoints to the detriment of national security. |
National Defense
September 2010
Stew Magnuson |
Terrorist Loophole: Explosives Under Clothing at Airport Checkpoints "One of the hard lessons we've learned is that there is no single technology that is going to detect everything," Clark Kent Ervin, former DHS inspector general and now director of the Aspen Institute's homeland security program, said in an interview. |
National Defense
October 2007
Grace Jean |
Airports Test Alternative Technologies for Checkpoints An influx of screening systems marks a coming of age in the security industry. |
National Defense
September 2010
Stew Magnuson |
DHS Lab Tries to Stay One Step Ahead of Bomb Makers Patrick O'Conner gets paid to make bombs for the Transportation Security Laboratory. |
Chemistry World
August 7, 2014
Emma Stoye |
UK plans stricter controls on poisons and explosives The UK government plans to bring in new laws that will tighten regulations around selling chemicals classed as 'poisons' or 'explosives precursors' to the general public. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
May 2006
John McHale |
Handheld instruments to transform explosives detection, environmental monitoring These battery-powered miniature instruments could one day be deployed in wireless sensor networks in airports, subway systems, and office buildings. |
Chemistry World
June 10, 2014
Richard Corfield |
Liquid explosives detectors entering service at airports An end to carrying a plastic bag filled with tiny bottles of liquids through airport security could be in sight, thanks to new analytical equipment being rolled out around the world. |
National Defense
April 2014
Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Counterterrorism Office Seeks Array of Technologies Devices to defeat improvised bombs and chemical and biological weapons are among its most acute needs. |
National Defense
May 2010
Stew Magnuson |
With No Budget, Joint Federal Office Tackles High Explosives Problem The Joint Program Office for Combating Terrorist Use of Explosives recently marked its one-year anniversary and is beginning to tick off items on a long list of recommendations designed to thwart terrorists from employing bombs on U.S. soil. |
National Defense
September 2009
Stew Magnuson |
Improvised Bombs Have a Long History in U.S. Improvised explosive devices, or homemade bombs, have been used to sow terror in the United States for longer than you may think. |
National Defense
August 2010
Stew Magnuson |
No Revival for Airport Puffer Machines Used to Detect Explosives The Transportation Security Administration has no plans to continue research into puffer machines that were designed to detect trace amounts of explosives on passengers. |
National Defense
September 2009
Stew Magnuson |
Feds Begin to Tackle the Vexing Problem of How to Defeat Homemade Bombs Congress' attention remains focused on preventing the use of weapons of mass destruction on U.S. soil, but improvised explosive devices do not receive the same attention as the chemical, biological or nuclear threats. |
National Defense
March 2013
Valerie Insinna |
Companies Introduce New Software to Defeat Suicide Bombers The military continues to invest in behavior prediction software that can alert defense and law enforcement agencies to a terrorist threat in real time. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2008 |
Implant Sciences' Explosives Detector Systems to be Used at Beijing 2008 Olympic Games To date, Implant Sciences has shipped its Quantum Sniffer BTS Benchtop explosives detection system (QS-BTS) and Quantum Sniffer H100 and H150 portable explosives detectors to Beijing. |
National Defense
April 2006
Grace Jean |
Explosives at Forefront of Airport Security Measures The Transportation Security Agency's recent modification of prohibited items in carry-on luggage marks a shift from its post-9/11 focus. |
Chemistry World
February 28, 2011
Rebecca Trager |
UK lab admits failings in inquest over death The UK Defense Science and Technology Laboratory has been censured over safety failings that led to the death of a government chemist eight years ago. |
National Defense
April 2006
Grace Jean |
Aviation Security Remains Under Scrutiny Aviation security measures adopted since 9/11 have not significantly made passengers safer or have been cost effective, experts contend. They also noted that many weaknesses in the previous system remain, despite billions of dollars being spent to enhance air safety. |
National Defense
July 2011
Stew Magnuson |
Plan to Create Center To Thwart Domestic Bombings Falls Short A proposal to put under one roof representatives of government agencies that are involved in thwarting the use of explosives as weapons of terror in the United States has been scrapped. |
National Defense
June 2007
Stew Magnuson |
Bomb Making Skills Spread Globally The war in Iraq is accelerating the development of IED technology as terrorists and insurgents are forced to adapt their methods to defeat countermeasures. |
Chemistry World
March 2006 |
The Last Retort: Still Baffled by H2O A laboratory in the U.S. has a mission to investigate the chemistry and physics of pure water more deeply than anyone has done before, with the help of a supercomputer called Thunder. |
Chemistry World
March 9, 2009
Ned Stafford |
Art From Explosives London-based artist and chemistry aficionado Aoife van Linden Tol will relocate to a remote forest area to create her newest collection of 'explosive art', detonating small bombs to make imprints on paper, wood and metals. |
Chemistry World
June 30, 2015
Tim Wogan |
New explosive is powerful but greener One of the most powerful non-nuclear explosives to date has been synthesized. The compound could be a more environmentally benign replacement for some common primary explosives. |
Chemistry World
March 23, 2007
Richard Van Noorden |
The Hole Story UK chemists are trying to create the first liquids made from holes. The strange fluids could change the way chemical plants operate, they claim. |
Chemistry World
June 21, 2007
Michael Gross |
A Mirror for the Moon Cosmologists have said that a Moon-based telescope with a parabolic mirror made of a rotating liquid would be ideally suited to studying very distant structures of the universe. Researchers using a chemical approach have now succeeded in creating a liquid based system. |
National Defense
June 2013
Stew Magnuson |
Catching Terrorists Carrying Bombs Still a Tough Problem to Solve When police in Watertown, Mass., honed in on Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hiding in a boat stored in a backyard in April, they had several tools familiar to service members who fought in the Iraq and Afghan wars at their disposal. |
Chemistry World
June 12, 2012
Erica Mills |
Lighting the way to explosive detection A mesoporous material functionalized with aggregation-induced emission luminogens serves as an efficient and recyclable fluorescent sensor to detect picric acid in water. |
