While metal detectors are useful for detecting land mines, they can be fooled by buried metallic debris … plus some mines don't contain any metal. A new system is claimed to work better, by reading ...

Hidden underground: in November engineers tested the NMR detectors in a minefield in Angola where it could reliably sense explosives buried up to 15 cm underground — the typical depth of a deployed ...

More than 100 million landmines remain buried worldwide, but a Sydney company’s breakthrough detection device could change everything for communities trapped by these hidden killers. Using the same ...

Two start-ups being built on technology invented by the CSIRO to detect explosives and critical minerals have merged to form a new company called MagnaTerra Technologies, with an investment valuing it ...

The news: Australian deep-tech company MRead has been awarded a $1.6 million grant under the Australian Government's Industry Growth Program to accelerate development of its handheld landmine detector ...

Using the same science behind hospital body scans, MineReader, a spin-out from CSIRO, is looking to making the hidden killers easier and safer to find. “Landmines make time stand still,” MRead chief ...