News tagged with explosive detection system

UF researchers refine system to detect explosive materials

Airport security workers this year will employ an array of pre-boarding detection measures to scan for deadly materials smuggled into the luggage of the world’s 625 million passengers expected to travel this year.

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Good liquid, bad liquid (Video)

For airline passengers everywhere, good news. Scientists have successfully tested a liquid explosive detection system that may eventually keep dangerous substances off airplanes. This comes barely two years ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4




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Iran: 'Flame' virus fight began with oil attack (Update)

(AP) — Computer technicians battling to contain a complex virus last month resorted to the ultimate firewall measures — cutting off Internet links to Iran's Oil Ministry, rigs and the hub for nearly ...

Technology / Internet

created May 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Synthetic scent hounds: Nanostructured sensor for detection of very low concentrations of explosive

To prevent terrorist attacks at airports, it would be helpful to detect extremely low concentrations of explosives easily and reliably. Despite the development of various sensor technologies, dogs continue ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Black hole caught red-handed in a stellar homicide

(Phys.org) -- Astronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 07, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Smart gas sensors for better chemical detection

Portable gas sensors can allow you to search for explosives, diagnose medical conditions through a patient's breath, and decide whether it's safe to stay in a mine.

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created May 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Comparing apples and oranges

Every year, U.S. supermarkets lose roughly 10 percent of their fruits and vegetables to spoilage, according to the Department of Agriculture. To help combat those losses, MIT chemistry professor Timothy Swager and his students ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Bejeweled: Nanotech gets boost from nanowire decorations

Like a lead actress on the red carpet, nanowires—those superstars of nanotechnology—can be enhanced by a little jewelry, too. Not the diamonds and pearls variety, but the sort formed of sinuous chains ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New Domain: International team installs first of three telescopes in Antarctica

A team of scientists representing several international institutions, including Texas A&M University, has succeeded in installing the first of three Antarctic Survey Telescopes (AST3-1) at the Chinese Kunlun ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Supersonic snowballs in hell: How comets explode, fizzle out, or survive a flight through the Sun's atmosphere

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the 1980s astronomers have seen thousands of comets falling towards the Sun, most of them too small to survive a close approach, let alone to re-emerge. Until recently no such objects ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How interstellar beacons could help future astronauts find their way across the universe

(PhysOrg.com) -- The use of stars, planets and stellar constellations for navigation was of fundamental importance for mankind for thousands of years. Now a group of scientists at the Max-Planck Institute ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Team releases findings from 2011 cruise to measure the concentration, distribution, and impacts of Fukushima radiation

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international research team is reporting the results of a research cruise they organized to study the amount, spread, and impacts of radiation released into the ocean from the tsunami-crippled ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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