Researchers pick up good vibrations to locate buried mines. Exciting a land mine may not sound like a good idea, but developers of the Seismic Landmine Detection System are doing just that. A group of ...
Zapping buried landmines with powerful sound waves and listening to them vibrate could reveal their location, say US researchers who have developed an acoustic sensor system capable of spotting hidden ...
Several thousand people -- many of them children -- are killed each year by the estimated 110 million land mines that lie hidden in 68 countries throughout the world. Humanitarian mine-clearing ...