Dogs can reliably smell when people experience acute stress. They do this by detecting subtle chemical changes in human sweat ...

Dr. Lynn Buzhardt, DVM, at VCA Animal Hospitals says dogs have more than 100 million receptors in their nasal cavity. Another ...

A pioneering study investigating the brain activity of dogs during scent detection has unveiled crucial insights into their remarkable olfactory capabilities. Researchers at Bar-Ilan University have ...

Dogs are capable of using their nose for many tasks: hunting, retrieval, and finding that cookie crumb you dropped beneath the couch. Now we can add “mussel sniffing” to the list. The California ...

The schematic of the setup features on a canine participant in the research: A green laser, digital camera, source of smell, and computer, and the regions of the brain that were tested Disclaimer: ...

In Africa, giant rats have been trained to sniff out tuberculosis in humans, and land mines in fields. In England, dogs have identified bladder cancer. In Georgia, wasps have detected bombs. So ...