21 min listen
No one nose
FromRecode Daily
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Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Apr 19, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
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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Released:
Apr 19, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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