Science or Science Fiction?

• A Sense for landmines

A heightened sense of smell, achieved by proxy through chemistry, offers solutions to problems where biologically
based sensors are inappropriate. Detection of the TNT in landmines using fluorescent chemosensors is one example.

• Early-blind human subjects localize sound sources better than sighted subjects

Do blind persons develop capacities of their remaining senses that exceed those of sighted individuals?

• Miscellaneous mentions of "superior senses"

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