Locusts wreak havoc across more countries in Africa and Asia

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Swarms of desert locusts have chomped their way through multiple nations. The invasion is expected to worsen food shortages in some countries.

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[MiryalgudaMaruthiRao]

doomsday

[MiryalgudaMaruthiRao]

what if those locusts transmit cvod19

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Cyborg locusts must be. 

[MiryalgudaMaruthiRao]

1 minute ago, Cathedral said:

Cyborg locusts must be. 

yes @DrBeta

[Cathedral]

14 minutes ago, MiryalgudaMaruthiRao said:

yes @DrBeta

Em artham ayindi

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48 minutes ago, Cathedral said:

Em artham ayindi

nenu anukkunade

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7 hours ago, Cathedral said:

Cyborg locusts must be. 

You mean some one made it?

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1 hour ago, dasari4kntr said:

You mean some one made it?

Cyborg locusts could be used to sniff out bombs, scientists say

Could cyborg locusts be the bomb-sniffing dogs of the future?

Scientists who received funding from the U.S. Navy revealed last week that they were able to program the bugs to sense various different smells, including from explosives.

The team's research paper, shows that the insects have been used to detect gases released by substances such as ammonium nitrate – often used by terrorist groups for bomb-making – as well as military explosives TNT and RDX.

The robot-bound locusts were exposed to five different explosives, and it only took 500 milliseconds of exposure for a distinct pattern of activity to appear in the locusts' brains. The scientists chose locusts because their tiny antennae are filled with about 50,000 olfactory neurons.