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Robotic peregrine falcon can scare birds away from crop fields

6 June 2022

A flying robot inspired by peregrine falcons offers a non-lethal method for scaring flocks of birds from crop fields

A Formica fusca ant

Ants trained to smell cancer chemicals in the urine of diseased mice

1 June 2022

The Formica fusca ant species was trained to move towards urine samples produced by mice with human breast tumours

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