4 Crazy Facts to Know About Your Nose

From memory to mapping, our sniffers are for more than just smelling.

By Cari Shane
Jan 13, 2022 4:00 PM
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Studies about our canine companions’ incredibly strong senses of smell have wowed humans for decades. A hefty body of research suggests that trained dogs can sniff out everything from different kinds of cancers (including lung, breast, bladder, ovarian, colorectal and prostate, the last of which they detected with 99 percent accuracy) to COVID-19 infections.


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