In 1970, officials in Oregon thought they had found the perfect solution to a massive whale carcass that had washed ashore: 450 kilograms of TNT. What happened next became one of the strangest and ...

A fire at Beirut's port seemed like a routine emergency—until a massive explosion ripped through the Lebanese capital. In ...

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Newly found immune cells called ‘ruptoblasts’ explode when triggered, ejecting toxic chemicals capable of delivering death to surrounding cells in just minutes. The cells’ discoverers say that this ...

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The unsettling boom, rumble and shaking heard and felt across Greater Boston Saturday afternoon may have come from a meteor. First reports of the sound came at 2:11 p.m. Saturday, according to 1 ...

The explosion occurred at about 9 p.m. during a test being conducted in advance of an upcoming launch. “We experienced an anomaly during today’s hotfire test,” Blue Origin reported on social media.

The clock is ticking for President Donald Trump to get a deal done with Iran. Or maybe it’s the other way around: Iran could be dealing with a ticking time bomb – in its own oil wells! With just days ...

May 25 (Reuters) - Firefighters contending with a dangerously overheating industrial tank of a hazardous chemical in Southern California have eliminated the possibility of the tank exploding after a ...

Firefighters have been working through the weekend to cool a chemical tank “literally on the edge” of exploding in Southern California as they worked to avert a disastrous “worst-case” scenario, the ...

Consumers report being startled by glass oven range doors that shattered spontaneously, often when the oven wasn't even on. Oven doors are spontaneously exploding, according to our analysis of reports ...