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by quickthrower2 862 days ago
I wonder what kinds of useful stuff dogs can smell already… but they can’t say anything!
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The most common but always impressive story I hear is that some dogs can smell cancer developing months or even a year before an official diagnosis. It honestly makes me wonder if the true next step for medical tooling should focus on enhancing human smell instead of sight to expand our spectrum or magnify microbes.

as another random trivia, many animals can often feel or hear an earthquake minutes to days in advance, demonstrated by unusual behavior. This is even less consistent but a phenomenon observed for millenia (wheras we didn't even properly name understand cancer until a few centuries at best).

> enhancing human smell

Is this not a form of spectroscopy?