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Scientists used tiny new sensors to follow the insects on journeys that take thousands of miles to their winter colonies in Mexico.
Scientists used tiny new sensors to follow the insects on journeys that take thousands of miles to their winter colonies in Mexico.
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The breakthrough is the result of a tiny solar-powered radio tag that weighs just 60 milligrams and sells for $200. Researchers have tagged more than 400 monarchs this year and are now following their journeys on a cellphone app created by the New Jersey-based company that makes the tags, Cellular Tracking Technologies.
Cool shit! Can’t wait for it to be weaponised against society.
Whenever public high-tech stuff comes up, you have to know that there has been, for a long time, even more advanced, more miniaturized, secret devices that have been used for secret services, military & the likes
Agree. I guess I should’ve been clearer. Those military devices - while more advanced - were used in a targeted maner. This one sounds like it’s one order of magnitude in pricing away from a nation-wide deployment.