January 1997
Detecting Stowaways
By Stephen Strauss
Had the ancient Greeks tried to use their Trojan horse to sneak into the Department of Energy's Y-12 facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn., they would almost certainly have given themselves away by a sound they couldn't control: the beating of their own hearts. Engineers at the national laboratory have developed a technology so sensitive it can pick up the sound of a heartbeat even when a person is well hidden inside a large vehicle.
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