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Podcast: Curiosity Weekly
Episode: You Navigate with Your Nose, Busting 5 Summer Myths, and Using Horseshoe Crabs’ Blue Blood to Develop New Medicine
Description: Learn about how humans literally use their noses to navigate; why the blue blood of horseshoe crabs is essential for developing drugs like a COVID-19 vaccine; and the truth behind 5 myths about summer dangers.
Humans use their noses to navigate, and both nostrils are important by Grant Currin
Humans navigate with stereo olfaction. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-06/caos-hnw062420.php
Wu, Y., Chen, K., Ye, Y., Zhang, T., & Zhou, W. (2020). Humans navigate with stereo olfaction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2004642117
Video used in the experiment: http://movie-usa.glencoesoftware.com/video/10.1073/pnas.2004642117/vi...