Mini-hunter

A five-year-old boy on a hunting trip shot dead a 12 ft, 800-pound alligator in Texas. When Simon Hughes and his rancher father Scott Hughes came across the massive reptile, the boy grabbed his junior sized .410-gauge shotgun and fired at the creature which was 20 times his size and is one of the biggest ever seen in Texas. "I wasn't afraid for a second. Next year, I'm going to kill a bigger alligator," Simon said later. Simon's father had a permit to kill two of the 40 alligators on his 5,000-acre ranch near Houston.

Bee bomb

Specially trained sniffer honey bees are being used in a successful new prototype that is about the size of a hand held vacuum cleaner. Training the bees is simply a matter of bribing them with sugary treats. Trainers expose the bees to the odour, like the smell of explosives, for a few seconds and simultaneously give the bees a sugar syrup reward.
After 4 or 5 exposures the bees associate the odour with the reward.Consequently, if the bees are exposed to an air sample containing the substance, the bees demonstrate the Proboscis Extension Reflex response, that is they stick out their tongue in expectation of food, which the trainers can observe and then they can respond to the threat.