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Bart Weetjens : Comment j'ai appris aux rats à flairer des champs de mines

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Au TEDxRotterdam, Bart Weetjens parle de son projet extraordinaire : former des rats à renifler des champs de mines. Il montre des extraits de ses "rats héros" en action, et présente la prochaine phase de son travail : leur apprendre à détecter la tuberculose en laboratoire.

Bart Weet­jens is developing a new approach to the land ­mine detection problem: train­ing giant pouched rats to detect explosives in minute amounts. Full bio »

Translated into French by Sarah Fathallah
Reviewed by Els De Keyser
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