Kukur Tihar, the second day of the five-day Tihar festival, is reserved for worshipping dogs - Copyright AFP PRAKASH MATHEMA Kukur Tihar, the second day of the five ...

Dogs' sniffing skills may soon get a boost, thanks to a groundbreaking discovery by animal behavior experts in the United Kingdom. Since detection dogs use their exceptional sense of smell to sniff ...

Two trained dogs learned to detect Parkinson’s disease by sniffing scent samples from human skin. They were part of a study aiming to improve early diagnosis of the condition. Bumper and Peanut ...

As technology advances in diabetes care with continuous glucose monitors, insulin pumps and AI-driven alerts, another kind of intelligence is proving just as powerful: a dog’s nose. Across the country ...

Cancer is a leading cause of death in both humans and pets; studies suggest that between one-third and one-half of all dogs will develop cancer during their lifetime. Hemangiosarcoma, an aggressive, ...

Chemist Lauryn DeGreeff is committed to making explosive and drug searching more effective and safer for detection dogs. In her latest research, DeGreeff put bombsniffing standards to the test, ...

Dogs rely on scent in ways that still surprise researchers. They have up to 300 million olfactory receptors, compared to about 6 million in humans, and can detect smells 10,000 to 100,000 times more ...

Dogs have one of the most powerful senses of smell in the animal kingdom, allowing them to detect specific chemical compounds in human breath, sweat, or urine. Studies show trained dogs can identify ...

Dogs trained to detect Parkinson’s disease using scent have shown remarkable accuracy in new research. In a double-blind trial, they identified skin swabs from people with Parkinson’s with up to 80% ...