The press explains liquid explosives and their challenge to airline safety – Knight Science Journalism @MIT
Science writers at many major outlets got an abrupt assignment when word broke early Thursday of terrorists the British caught as they plotted and prepared to destroy airliners with easily-smuggled-aboard liquid explosives. What are they, how hard are they to detect, what machines or detectors might help thwart them? These vital explainers were prominent among the mix of news packages...