Human Nose

Researchers say they have developed an “effective, low-cost therapeutic intervention” to block COVID-19 - but for now, it only works on hamsters. Nanobodies are administered directly through the nose or by inhalation, the researchers said. However, it's yet to be determined whether this treatment could work for humans.

Since 1997, a non-profit organisation headquartered in Tanzania has been training African giant pouched rats to detect two things: landmines and tuberculosis. These trained rats are nicknamed 'HeroRats'.

The human nose, in all its glorious forms, is one of our most distinctive characteristics, whether big, little, broad, narrow or somewhere in between. Scientists are now sniffing out some of the factors that drove the evolution of the human proboscis.

Africa's giant rats have been trained to sniff out landmines and detect tuberculosis in humans, and soon they could turn their superior noses to protecting other animals by finding illegal wildlife trophies being smuggled out of African ports.

Human beings not only pick up aromas through the nose, but also through the mouth while chewing food. A new study says that the ability to smell food through the mouth decreases with age.

This new study shows how technology that mimics the human nose can sniff out low levels of bacteria and other microbes by detecting the off flavour they give off.

The human nose can distinguish at least one trillion different odors, millions more than previously estimated, US researchers said on Thursday.

Researchers say they have developed an “effective, low-cost therapeutic intervention” to block COVID-19 - but for now, it only works on hamsters. Nanobodies are administered directly through the nose or by inhalation, the researchers said. However, it's yet to be determined whether this treatment could work for humans.

Since 1997, a non-profit organisation headquartered in Tanzania has been training African giant pouched rats to detect two things: landmines and tuberculosis. These trained rats are nicknamed 'HeroRats'.

The human nose, in all its glorious forms, is one of our most distinctive characteristics, whether big, little, broad, narrow or somewhere in between. Scientists are now sniffing out some of the factors that drove the evolution of the human proboscis.

Africa's giant rats have been trained to sniff out landmines and detect tuberculosis in humans, and soon they could turn their superior noses to protecting other animals by finding illegal wildlife trophies being smuggled out of African ports.

Human beings not only pick up aromas through the nose, but also through the mouth while chewing food. A new study says that the ability to smell food through the mouth decreases with age.

This new study shows how technology that mimics the human nose can sniff out low levels of bacteria and other microbes by detecting the off flavour they give off.

The human nose can distinguish at least one trillion different odors, millions more than previously estimated, US researchers said on Thursday.