Sewer Sensors Detect Homemade Bombs As They're Being Made

Underground Henry_Spencer via Flickr Could the secret to finding illicit explosives labs before they harm anyone be hiding in a city's poop? A European Union-funded research project spearheaded by the Swedish Defense Research Agency FOI aims to sniff out the telltale signs of bomb-making through the sewer system. EMPHASIS Click here for a closer look at this image. FOI EMPHASIS plans to take a two-pronged approach to finding explosives while they're still being assembled. It would position senso...