If they lose a signal, they can find their way back to the surface on their own; a robot might just get stuck. A group of rats are in training at Apopo’s facility in Tanzania, where they spend ...

So, why rats? These rats are nocturnal with a highly evolved sense of smell that helps them sniff out explosives, said Cindy Fast, head of training ... The origins of bomb-sniffing rats Back ...

A pooch prompted a bomb scare in the Big Apple Saturday after it sniffed out what it believed was an explosive device hidden inside a car — which actually turned out to be rat poop, police ...

Giant rats wearing tiny high-tech backpacks are being trained in Tanzania for search and rescue operations. Belgium-based non-profit company APOPO has already trained rats and dogs to detect ...

Research scientist Dr Donna Kean, 33, from Glasgow, has been working in Morogoro, Tanzania over the past year for non-profit organisation APOPO on the project titled 'Hero Rats'. The team is ...

And she is no ordinary street rat. She's much bigger, for one thing, weighing around 3 pounds. She's also part of an elite pack of so-called HeroRATs, which were trained by the nonprofit ...

Ronin is one of more than 100 rats trained by APOPO to detect the scent ... The US dropped 2.7 million tons of ordnance – including cluster bombs and submunitions – in a four-year carpet ...

They’re also trained on a grid system, and when in the field, their small size allows them to find and get to the landmines without setting them off. Ronin and other rats work only 30 minutes ...