Imagine a substance so powerful that it could blow you to bits or save your life depending on how you used it. Well imagine ...

In 1918, five men working for the Independent Torpedo Co. were killed in three Wyoming nitroglycerin blasts just weeks apart. Their deaths helped lead ...

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 ...