Making gunpowder is a bit like cooking, except more explosive. Gunpowder makers in the 14th and 15th centuries used black powder brought to Europe from China, then mixed its three ingredients together ...

A Committee of Safety was formed to keep the other colonies informed, and one of the messengers of this committee was Boston ...

Warfare often has a way of making technology jump forward. Take a closer look at some of the weapons and inventions that ...

The Boston bombing probe might have been helped if the explosives were marked with microscopic identifiers called taggants. But the technology has long been off-limits, thanks to the National Rifle ...

This article contains spoilers for Gunpowder Milkshake. Gunpowder Milkshake has many strong qualities, but the movie’s character work isn’t one of them. The Netflix film is visually vibrant featuring ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. For as long as I can remember, I’ve loved gunpowder. One of my ...

In 1605, a group of British Catholics, including Guy Fawkes and Robert Catesby, devised a plan to blow up the Houses of Parliament. They hoped to wipe out the anti-Catholic political establishment and ...

This week, HBO will debut a three-part miniseries, dramatizing the infamous Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Gunpowder's run seems short and sweet, but as we now have seen in miniseries such as Big Little Lies ...

When people call a photograph explosive, they usually mean it metaphorically. That's not the case with Justyna Badach’s work. The Philadelphia-based photographer actually used gunpowder to make the ...

“Gunpowder Milkshake,” briefly set adrift by the upheaval of the pandemic, has found a new home — and likely new audience — with Netflix. A stylistic piece of violent cotton-candy fluff, the action ...

Le ​Gardeur serves as the Gunpowder riverkeeper, an essential role in protecting the watershed. His job is to pay meticulous ...