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08/14/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Trained bees successfully locate landmines in Croatia

The ongoing effort to detect and disarm forgotten explosives in battlefields around the world has received a new tool. Scottish researchers successfully got honeybees to sniff out old landmines in Croatia, an article on the Daily Express reported. The bees were trained to associate the smell of explosives with food. When they detected a landmine, […]

03/20/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Energy-absorbing plastic frame developed to protect troops from blasts that harm the brain

A joint study by two major Maryland universities have created a new shock absorbing device to protect the people inside military vehicles from traumatic brain injuries (TBI) during a landmine or IED blast, reported ScienceDaily. More than a quarter of a million members of the U.S. military have suffered TBI during the last two decades of strike in Afghanistan and […]

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