The engine was eventually replicated, heavily modified, and fed a steady diet of nitromethane. Reports are that the modified engines make 11,000 horsepower at the crankshaft and can do 300 MPH in just ...

Crooks also searched for ammonium nitrate, nitromethane, and other materials consistent with manufacturing explosive devices. Law enforcement found two explosive devices in Crooks' car.

There are only two series-production cars with two combustion engines to speak of, but countless other twin-engine oddities ...

Now Richard Yetter, Ilhan Aksay and co-workers at Pennsylvania State University and Princeton University have shown that the combustion performance of nitromethane can be greatly enhanced by ...

With conflict raging again in Israel, a fearless initiative reveals a complex reality that few visitors ever see Geraldine Brooks; Photographs by David Degner A blazing nitromethane-fueled ...

Jeff MacGregor Jeff MacGregor is the award-winning Writer-at-Large for Smithsonian.He has written for the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Esquire, and many others, and is the author of the ...