Tag: humble spinach plant

• Tuesday, November 1st 2016 - 10:18 UTC

  Spinach effective in helping detect landmines, according to MIT field work

  

  Scientists have transformed the humble spinach plant into a bomb detector. By embedding tiny tubes in the plants' leaves, they can be made to pick up chemicals called nitro-aromatics, which are found in landmines and buried munitions. Real-time information can then be wirelessly relayed to a handheld device.