In what may be just an eerie coincidence, the Defense Department posted a contract award notice today to Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts for research into “Methods for Explosive ...

Scientists have developed a way to detect tiny amounts of hard-to-detect explosives more than eight feet away, reducing the need to swipe clothing, luggage or other materials. The method, published in ...

Compact dual-mode vapor and particle sensors for drone-based explosive detection: Advances in sensor miniaturization are enabling drones to perform explosive trace detection in hard-to-access and high ...

The threat posed to commercial aviation by small, concealed explosive devices is particularly severe since they are difficult to detect using current techniques and can readily cause tremendous ...

Hidden anti-personnel landmines continue to threaten millions of people living in conflict and post-conflict regions around the world. Many of these explosive devices are made from plastic, making ...

Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) exploits the amplification of Raman signals by plasmonic nanostructures to identify trace amounts of explosive compounds with high specificity and sensitivity.