News tagged with landmines
Simple test could offer cheap solution to detecting landmines
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Scientists have developed a simple, cheap, accurate test to find undetected landmines.
Engineer creating more sensitive, safer landmine detectors
Oct 30, 2008 |
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Long after a conflict, landmines remain buried underground unless someone can locate and detonate them. According to the United Nations (UN), there are more than 100 million landmines buried in 68 countries around the world. ...
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Ground-breaking antilandmine radar
Aug 23, 2007 |
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Researchers in The Netherlands are developing a radar system that might one day see through solid earth and could be used to clear conflict zones of landmines, safely and at low cost. Writing in Inderscience's Journal of ...
New technique for easily identifying explosives in luggage
Jan 24, 2007 |
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Scientists in Japan have developed a new technique for sensing explosives in luggage and landmines. The paper, published today in the Institute of Physics journal Superconductor Science and Technology descri ...
Next generation anti-land mine device
Mar 29, 2005 |
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UK-based humanitarian de-mining specialists Disarmco have teamed up with ordnance and explosives experts at Cranfield University at Shrivenham to develop the next generation of anti-land mine device. The anti-landmine inv ...
Biosensor sniffs out explosives
May 08, 2007 |
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Temple University School of Medicine researchers have developed a new biosensor that sniffs out explosives and could one day be used to detect landmines and deadly agents, such as sarin gas, according to a ...
World's most powerful diode pumped solid state laser
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Jul 05, 2005 |
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A revolutionary new laser under development at DOE's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory could drastically reduce casualties by U.S. forces. The Solid State Heat Capacity Laser program has already successfully ach ...
Tropical soils impede landmine detection
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 06, 2008 |
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Use of a metal detector is the most common technique when searching for landmines, which litter the soil in approximately 90 countries around the world. Many of these countries are located in the tropics where intensively ...
Japanese scientists aim to create robot-insects
Jul 14, 2009 |
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Police release a swarm of robot-moths to sniff out a distant drug stash. Rescue robot-bees dodge through earthquake rubble to find survivors.
Engineer explores underwater wireless communications
Apr 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Milica Stojanovic says the best way to think about the need for better underwater communications is to consider the Titanic.
Crime Scene Investigation: Can maths tell what happened?
Sep 06, 2005 |
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The next Miss Marple or Sherlock Holmes could well be a mathematician, suggest researchers speaking at the British Association Festival of Science in Dublin today. Mathematics is playing such an increasingly important rol ...
How do you solve a problem like MARIA?
Feb 11, 2009 |
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A chance conversation between Alan Preece, Professor of Medical Physics in the Bristol Oncology Centre, and Dr Ian Craddock from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering has led to the development ...
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