By Nicole Mortillaro, Global News, July 6, 2016
A sensor fitted to a locust that monitors neural activity and decodes the odorants in their environment.
It may sound like science fiction, but if university researchers are successful, the United States could one day be using bomb-sniffing locusts for homeland security.
The U.S. Navy has given Washington University in St. Louis a three-year grant of $750,000 to create cyborg-locusts capable of sniffing out volatile substances within its environment.
