July 23, 2003Post office unveils anthrax detectorAs technical challenges go, it's a doozy: With 202 billion pieces of mail posted each year, design a machine that will detect a single letter containing anthrax spores so tiny that thousands could be piled on the period at the end of this sentence. And make sure the contraption isn't triggered by the countless, harmless particles that spew from envelopes as they speed through mail processing machines.Posted by Timothy Fredel at July 23, 2003 5:58 PM Related Categories: Quadrant - Technological | Theme - 'Response to Terrorism' | Theme - 'The Biotech Century' | Theme - 'The New Age of Germs' E-mail This Story
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