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Unexplainable

No one nose

Unexplainable

Vox

Life Sciences, Science, Natural Sciences

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

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. For further reading, sign up for our newsletter here: http://vox.com/unexplainable-newsletter Show transcript and articles at: http://vox.com/unexplainable Article on quantum nose theory: https://bit.ly/3clurfs Email us! unexplainable@vox.com We read every email. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:11.2

This is unexplainable. I'm no, I'm Hasenfeld hanging out here with our senior science reporter, Brian Resnick.

1:31.1

Hey, so this is a show about unanswered scientific questions and Brian, I wanted to talk to you

1:36.4

because when we were initially talking about topics we might want to cover on the show,

1:40.4

you told me there was this mystery you wanted me to look into about the nose.

1:44.9

Yeah, I haven't done any research on this myself, but I do remember seeing a YouTube video that

1:53.1

it was going on about like how smell is just still a mystery.

1:56.6

Yeah, we still don't know everything about how smell works and it's kind of shocking because

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