The colossal explosion in Lebanon’s capital this week was apparently caused when more than 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate detonated. The stockpile had been left for years at the city's port in a ...

In ordinary circumstances, ammonium nitrate is fertilizer. But when placed under stress of heat and pressure, it acts like a bomb. transcript [screaming] [smaller explosions] [giant blast] [alarms] ...

Oklahoma City-based LSB Industries will make up to 150,000 short tons of low-carbon ammonium nitrate solutions every year for five years in El Dorado for Phoenix-based Freeport Minerals Corporation's ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...