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The clock is ticking for President Donald Trump to get a deal done with Iran. Or maybe it’s the other way around: Iran could be dealing with a ticking time bomb – in its own oil wells! With just days ...

Firefighters have been working through the weekend to cool a chemical tank “literally on the edge” of exploding in Southern California as they worked to avert a disastrous “worst-case” scenario, the ...

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DENVER — Tiny, exploding black holes might explain one of the biggest mysteries about how the universe, in its current form, came to be. In the cosmos, matter is much more common than antimatter. But ...

Have you ever been drifting off to sleep when suddenly you hear what sounds like a gunshot, a door slamming, or an explosion inside your head? You jolt awake, heart pounding, sit upright in bed, but ...

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You might have heard media reports describing how shower doors have shattered spontaneously inside homes. While there are rare cases of the door exploding while homeowners are inside the shower, most ...