Animal world
Training of examination dogs
Images of dogs appearing at airports help detect explosives and drugs is very common but in the future this animal may appear in both hospitals.
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Animal world
Dogs can detect prostate cancer
Dogs can be trained to detect prostate cancer by examining urine samples.
Animal world
Why do dogs always wet nose?
Nasal mucus is an important screening tool in the dog's complex olfactory system.
Animal world
Effect of female mouse urine on male mice
According to researchers at St. Mary's Medical School. Louis of Washington University, a group of steroids found in female mouse urine runs straight to the male mouse he…
Animal world
Mice use specialized neurons to detect carbon dioxide in the air
For rats, carbon dioxide means danger. New research from Rockefeller University proves that mice have a way to identify carbon dioxide related to a particular olfactory…
Animal world
Baby rabbits learn about smell thanks to pheromone in breast milk
The olfactory signal helps newborn rabbits to breastfeed when they are born, allowing it to begin a learning period to develop in the future. Pheromone in mother's milk…
Animal world
The pigeon bird is oriented to the sense of smell
There is a set of pigeons that question scientists, the ability to find their way back, even hundreds of kilometers away. This ability has been known for a long time, si…
Environment
Use tiger dogs
After being trained in Russia to specialize in sniffing to detect tigers, a professional dog was taken to Cambodia to seek traces of the lord of the forest in the reserv…
Videos
Video: The perfume prevents the brain from feeling the toilet odor
Bill Gates collaborated with a Swiss company to develop a perfume that completely eliminates the odor in the toilet, encouraging people to go to the toilet in the right…
Medicine - Health
Use dogs to detect ... malaria in the future
Dogs have at least 220 million olfactory receptors while humans have only 5 million olfactory receptors. Thanks to this heavenly characteristic, dogs have a very good se…
Medicine - Health
For the first time, scientists have drawn a human olfactory map
Being able to smell many different flavors is always considered a human senses but has never been decoded by science.
Medicine - Health
Forget the smell of lovers, watch out for memory loss!
Afif Aqrabawi, one of the authors, said there is a strong connection between memory and smell and this connection is made by evolution.
Medicine - Health
Science proves: only smelling is fat
Research has shown that, without eating, sniffing your food puts you at risk
Medicine - Health
Why do we smell the smell?
The nose has 2 nostrils, separated in the middle by the middle nasal wall, each nostril has 4 walls and 2 nostrils before and after.
Medicine - Health
New hope for people with spinal cord injuries
For the first time, a patient who is paralyzed due to a spinal cord injury can walk again, after receiving a nose olfactory nerve cell into the spinal column.