{"id":46409,"date":"2026-03-11T01:40:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=46409"},"modified":"2026-03-11T01:40:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:40:37","slug":"could-flies-sniff-out-contraband-chemicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=46409","title":{"rendered":"Could flies sniff out contraband chemicals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Nature, Published online: 10 March 2026; doi:10.1038\/d41586-026-00642-5<\/p>\n<p>A suggestion that mutant insects could detect narcotics or explosive substances, and how ash seeds feature a screw propeller, in this week\u2019s pick from the Nature archive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature, Published online: 10 March 2026; doi:10.1038\/d41586-026-00642-5 A suggestion that mutant insects could detect narcotics or explosive substances, and how ash seeds feature a screw propeller, in this week\u2019s pick from the Nature archive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[2763,23703,4066,23702],"class_list":{"0":"post-46409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-chemicals","9":"tag-contraband","10":"tag-flies","11":"tag-sniff"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}