After the overwhelming response to the Hackit we posted about automated hard drive destruction last fall, we finally decided to test out some thermite hard drive destruction ourselves. This has been ...

Thermites are a double-edged sword. Packing a tremendous energy density, and eager to produce tremendous heat when ignited, thermite is great for welding train tracks. But sometimes you might be ...

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“Look, I made a thermite launcher!” cackles inventor Colin Furze as he demonstrates his most recent invention in a March 31 YouTube video. While you normally have to emplace the compound, or toss a ...

A burst of light, a puff of smoke, and a wave of heat sent nearly 700 grams of thermite up in flames and burning through two clay pots before settling on a hunk of cast iron. "Well ... that just means ...

To make a safe, portable form of heating to take to the rest of the team working up on the glacier. All combustion reactions (such as the burning of coal) are exothermic. Incredibly, the reaction ...

The FBI agents in charge of Seattle and Portland’s offices joined Thursday to call for more help from the public, particularly after confirming that whoever tried to set fire to three ballot boxes in ...

A Tennessee man is behind bars after he allegedly began assembling materials to burn down one of Elon Musk‘s AI data centers ...