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Brit Arrested for Selling 'Useless' Bomb Detectors

LONDON (Jan. 25) – The boss of a British company that sold $85 million worth of "totally ineffective" explosives-detecting equipment to Iraq was arrested this weekend on fraud charges, and exports of his company's devices to Iraq and Afghanistan have been banned. Some campaigners have questioned why action was not...

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Bee venom used to create ultra-sensitive explosives sensor

We knew that well-trained bees were capable of sniffing out dynamite and other explosives, but researchers at MIT have now come up with a slightly less militant way to use our winged friends as bomb detectors.

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06/01/12 Silkmoth inspires novel explosive detector Source: ScienceDaily ScienceDaily (June 1, 2012) Imitating the antennas of the silkmoth, Bombyx mori , to design a system for detecting explosives with unparalleled performance is the feat achieved by a team from the "NanomatÃ©riaux pour SystÃ¨mes sous Sollicitations ExtrÃªmes" unit (CNRS / Institut Franco-Allemand de Recherches de Saint-Louis), in collaboration with the Laboratoire des MatÃ©riaux, Surfaces et ProcÃ©dÃ©s pour la Catalyse (CNRS / UniversitÃ© de Strasbourg).
10/24/10 Better explosive detectors on the anvil Source: Vietnam Tribune Christine Mahoney and a team of scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Maryland have been working on designing explosive detectors that can stop the threat of terrorist-based attacks in the form of explosives or explosive-based devices.