New Nanosensor Sniffs Bombs, One Molecule at a Time

Imagine a piece of metal 30,000 times thinner than one of the hairs on your head. Mixed with a little protein from bee venom, that microscopic filament becomes the most powerful explosives detection system in history, able to detect a single molecule of dangerous chemicals.

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