Making Sense of Smell

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This week we're trying to make some sense of smell. This whole series was actually inspired by one of the very first episodes of unexplainable, which we made almost exactly a year ago. It's all about the nose and we wanted to share that episode again. And what i think might be the most exciting part of this whole research is that now they're starting to test this ability on covet like relylic dogs can smell people who are carrying crivers. They should be publishing the results soon.

Dogs can smell cancer, Covid-19, and many other health problems in humans. Now, scientists are trying to duplicate these powers in robotic sniffers. But there’s a big challenge here: Scientists don’t really understand how smell works. This is the third episode of our six-part series, Making Sense, and it originally ran on March 10, 2021.

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