SPECK CHECK

SCIENTISTS AT LOS ALAMOS National Laboratory (N.M.) are testing a new way to detect explosives. The method, which lends itself to use in portable or hand-held devices, draws air samples into a sealed chamber and passes them across a fine screen heated to 500C. A light-sensitive photomultiplier tube...

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