Build It to Understand It, but That Understand It Part

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This week on Unexplainable, we look at the mystery of smell. We also talk about a new technology that could put noses in our phones. And Anne Sophie Barwich explains how one theory turned out to be more complicated than first thought. At the bottom of the page, please share your thoughts and suggestions for future episodes.

Believe it or not, scientists still don't know how the sense of smell works. But they're looking at how powerful it is - dogs can actually sniff out cancer and many other diseases - and they're trying to figure out how to reverse engineer it. In fact, one MIT scientist may have built a robot nose ... without completely understanding how his invention works.

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