Monday, October 31, 2016

Leo Sanchez #10

PLANT THAT CAN DETECT BOMBS!!

Scientists turned normal spinach plants into bomb detectors, putting tiny tubes inside the plant it can detect chemicals from land mines underground. The plants glow after being hit with a laser and can be detected with just your smartphone camera. researchers can pick up the signal from about a mile away. I think this sounds pretty cool and I read that its cheap but really how cheap is cheap? Putting tubes in plants sound hard and not cheap to me. still interesting what some people can do.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37823909

2 comments:

  1. That is so interesting! I agree, that probably adds up with all the little plants.

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  2. Woah!!!!! This is so cool!!! This allows us to have greater safety and who knows what's next?!

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