Good news! Amazing stuff if confirmed!
"Researchers in Israel have announced a breakthrough in safely detecting landmines – using bacteria.
They’ve developed tiny pellet-sized biosensors based on E. coli – better known as the cause intestinal infections.
The biosensors are dispersed over the target area, where they sniff out the chemical signature of buried explosives and become luminescent.
A drone then flies over, photographs them, and reveals the location of any landmine.... The planet is currently littered with an estimated 110 million landmines, many of them left over from wars that ended decades ago. ..."
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