#bomb-sniffing

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Award-winning Bomb-sniffing Rat Retires After Detecting 71 Landmines, 38 Items Of Unexploded Ordnance

Award-winning Bomb-sniffing Rat Retires After Detecting 71 Landmines, 38 Items Of Unexploded Ordnance

A giant African pouched rat called Magawa who spent years sniffing out landmines in the Cambodian countryside has stopped working and will enjoy a well-earned retirement eating bananas and peanuts, his employers told AFP. Magawa, originally from Tanzania, was trained by the Belgian charity Apopo, which says the rodent helped clear mines from 225,000 sq m of land in his five-year career, the…

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Airbus to deploy ‘game-changing’ bomb-sniffing sensors at airports Airbus plans to test an “electronic nose” device that uses biological cells to mimic what bomb-sniffing dogs can do, reports the Financial Times. The company will deploy jellyfish-shaped sensors, developed by Silicon Valley startup Koniku, in several...