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RATS TO THE RESCUE Rats could soon be giving rescue dogs some serious competition in the race to find trapped people. The rodents have an exquisitely sensitive sense of smell and can crawl just about anywhere – making them the perfect candidates for sniffing out earthquake survivors buried in wreckage. Researchers have now equipped the animals with radios that transmit their brainwaves, and have taught then to seek out explosives as well as people . . . MORE Here.