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The MIT researchers' sensor uses carbon nanotubes (in yellow) covered in protein fragments to detect even a single molecule of an explosive, such as the TNT molecule shown here.

Finding a needle in a haystack

New sensor developed by MIT chemical engineers can detect tiny traces of explosives.

May 10, 2011