Mine Detection

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Mine detection with glowing bacteria
Biology

Mine detection with glowing bacteria

Scottish scientists have developed a mine-detection method that is both safe and inexpensive, using bacteria that emit blue light when exposed to explosives.

December 17, 2018
Tobacco plants have the ability to leak mines
Scientific application

Tobacco plants have the ability to leak mines

A plant capable of detecting mines has just been developed by scientists: genetically modified tobacco plants. This tobacco plant carries a gene that works to produce a…

December 16, 2018
Mine detection technology
New technology

Mine detection technology

A ComScan450 detector using X-ray scattering technology for accurate demining has been successfully tested in Germany.

December 11, 2018