Meet The Tree That Shoots Its Seeds At 150 MPH — A Biologist Explains

This rainforest tree solved one of evolution’s hardest problems. Here’s how it evolved to use tension and geometry to fire ...

Nature’s Seed Cannon: Meet Sandbox tree who shoots its seeds at 150 mph

Scientists have discovered a tropical “dynamite tree” that explosively launches seeds at 150 mph. The mechanism uses physics, ...
Billings Gazette

U.S. Forest Service considers using explosives to bring down trees

Paul Bunyan wouldn't have known what to make of Gordon Ash's little logging crew in the Pioneer Mountains last week. Instead of axes or saws, the U.S. Forest Service team went after trees with sticks ...
CNN

Investigators tread carefully at charred Tennessee explosives plant as families of 16 blast victims learn of their loss

The families of 16 victims killed in a devastating blast at a Tennessee explosives plant have been notified of their loss, as investigators methodically work to clear the scene and gather evidence to ...
CNN

Witnesses who could shed light on the cause of deadly Tennessee blast were killed

Utter devastation lies before investigators days after a building at a Tennessee explosives plant was razed by a blast so powerful that it left behind no living witnesses, created a vast and volatile ...
Boston Herald

Blast at a Tennessee explosives plant leaves 19 people missing and feared dead, sheriff says

McEWEN, Tenn. (AP) — A blast leveled an explosives plant Friday in rural Tennessee, leaving behind a mass of twisted metal, burned-out shells of cars and at least 19 people missing and feared dead, ...
Military.com

Tennessee Explosives Plant Blast That Killed 16 People Was a Chain Reaction Felt 20 Miles Away

McEWEN, Tenn. (AP) — A massive blast at a Tennessee explosives plant that killed 16 people, leveled the building and was felt more than 20 miles away began in an area where workers used kettles to ...
WDBJ

Cause of Tennessee explosives plant blast that killed 16 people could take months to determine

McEWEN, Tenn. (AP) — A massive blast at a Tennessee explosives plant that killed 16 people, leveled the building and was felt more than 20 miles away began in an area where workers used kettles to ...