WEIRD SCIENCE

LANL’s New explosive could render toxic TNT obsolete

  David Szondy –  Explosives chemist David Chávez pours an example of melt-castable explosive into a copper mold at Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Technical Area 9 (Credit: LANL)   It looks as if the days of the venerable explosive trinitrotoluene (TNT) are numbered …

 

Massive Earth-buzzing asteroid found to have two moons

  Michael Irving – The 4.5-km (2.8-mi) wide asteroid Florence, which whizzed past Earth last week, has been found to have two moons orbiting it (Credit: NASA/JPL) Recently, Earth was buzzed by asteroid 3122 Florence, the largest space rock NASA has seen come this …

Protecting your devices from cryptojacking

Protecting your devices from cryptojacking By Jason Adler – Assistant Director, Midwest Region – Instead of min(d)ing their own business, are scammers using your computer as their virtual ATM? Three years ago, the FTC warned the public and took action against cryptojacking. That’s …