In some laboratories, a clear, oily liquid is treated less like a reagent and more like contraband, locked away behind blast doors and handled with rituals that look closer to bomb disposal than bench ...

BOSTON — While the process isn't perfect, scanning machines do exist to detect liquid explosives like the ones purportedly at the heart of the terrorist plot broken up this week. But don't expect the ...

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