Metal detecting hobbyist John Briare discovered an active 19th-century Civil War cannonball on Feb. 7 in North Myrtle Beach after visiting his family from ...

Armed with a metal detector and centuries-old legends, the hunt for pirate treasure begins along a historic coastline. Stories of buried loot and hidden caches have circulated for generations. Each ...

Cops are flying over the Tucson desert with a high-tech Bluetooth signal detector in an attempt to locate a signal from Nancy Guthrie’s pacemaker.

A metal detector hobbyist discovered a centuries’ old coin while scouring an abandoned sports field—and the coin is especially rare for the area. In the southern Australian province of Victoria, ...

Metal detecting on land can feel harmless, but in some areas it carries extreme risk. Old conflict zones still hide unexploded landmines beneath the surface. A single metal signal can mean history — ...

Metalheads have always found transcendence, exultation, and deliverance in music’s heaviest genre where everyone else has heard noise. Sometimes you need to feel like the sound coming out of your ...

Why would you want to detect metal? Oh, I don't know … maybe you want to find some gold in the ground. You could dig up ALL the dirt, or you could find the location that has the gold before you dig.

Between 100 and 150 pieces of Shaler’s coal mining history will displayed in November at the Shaler North Hills Library. Members of the North Pittsburgh Past Finders metal detecting club have found ...

Physicists have unveiled a new superconducting detector sensitive enough to hunt dark matter particles smaller than electrons. By capturing faint photon signals, the device pushes the search into ...

So, you've binged a few treasure-hunting shows and now you're wondering if your own old detector in the garage can find you a pirate chest. One of the first questions that may pop up in your head ...

A neighbor illegally burning debris is being blamed for sparking a fast-moving brush fire in Vero Beach, according to the Indian River County Fire Rescue. Palm Beach Atlantic University ends theatre ...

Ole Ginnerup Schytz, an engineer in Denmark’s sleepy Vindelev agricultural area, had used a metal detector only a handful of times when he found a bent clump of metal in a friend’s barley field. He ...