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Here’s How Bees Are Being Used to Detect Bombs

Bomb-sniffing dogs were a little too cumbersome, I guess.


Bees are talented animals. They produce honey, they pollinate, they sting you (no one is perfect). They also, as scientists are learning, have finely tuned senses of smell — so finely tuned, in fact, that their sense of smell can be used to detect bombs.


This clip, which is taken from a longer program, shows how it works. Now, will this actually be useful on the battlefield? Only time will tell (probably not).

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