Israeli Researchers Discover New Forms of Explosive Favored by Terrorists
Thursday, May 21, 2009 - 16:28
in Mathematics & Economics
A breakthrough by researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology provides new ammunition in the war on terror. Their discovery of six never-before-seen polymorphic crystalline structures of TATP -- the easy-to-make but difficult to detect explosive increasingly used by terrorists worldwide -- will make it easier to detect the explosive even when it is concealed.