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Cheaper explosives detection (and tastier, too)

BBC reports "Curry powder molecule 'is cheap sensor for explosives'":

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Now, research presented at the American Physical Society meeting suggests it could replace more complex solutions to spot explosives like TNT.

As it gathers molecules of explosive material in air, changes in its light-emitting properties can be measured.

This "fluorescence spectroscopy" is already employed in a wide array of sensing and analysis techniques.

If only DHS were funding things like this instead of buying a bunch more Nude-o-Scopes and lining former-Secretary Chertoff's pockets.

Wow, another miracle from Indian culture. Only in recent years did I find out the turmeric is a substitute for NSAIDs. And so far as I know, turmeric won't give you bleeding ulcers.