Latest Ally in the War On Terror

Oh, right.  We don't call it that any more.  I forget what the latest name is.

  Anyway, the idea is to use cockroaches.  No, really.  Remote-controlled cockroaches armed with sensors capable of transmitting findings back using a small low-voltage communications system.  “Cockroaches really are the perfect medium for this,” says William Charlton, an associate professor of nuclear engineering at the university and a principal investigator on the project. “They can go for extraordinarily long periods of time without food. They exist on every continent except Antarctica. They’re very radiation resistant, and they can carry extremely large amounts of weight compared to their body mass.”