explosions

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Other tests have ended in explosions, including one last June that shook homes miles away.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

But previous tests have ended in spectacular explosions, including twice over the Caribbean and once after reaching space.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

“It’s a neurochemical con job. It’s just synaptic, electronic explosions in your brain. It’s just a meat computer,” he says, bursting into his infectious, double bass laugh.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

However, no recent stellar explosions close to Earth are known, leaving scientists uncertain about the source of iron-60 discovered in relatively young Antarctic snow a few years ago.

From Science Daily • May 14, 2026

Sarai was reeling with visions of explosions and contraptions and impossibly tall towers—and girls climbing impossibly tall towers—and magnets and saws and bridges and flasks of miraculous chemicals and...and...and flying machines.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor