TO GO WITH AFP STORY (FILES) This file photo taken on May 25, 2016 shows Brazilian policeman of the BAC (Brigade of canine action) special unit training a dog for the research of explosives at the Tom Jobim international airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Struck by the legendary sniffing skills of man's best friend, scientists in the United States fitted a dog-inspired plastic nose to an explosives detector, and reported on December 1, 2016 it worked much better. / AFP PHOTO / CHRISTOPHE SIMON
PARIS: Struck by the legendary sniffing skills of man’s best friend, scientists in the United States fitted a dog-inspired plastic nose to an explosives detector, and reported it worked much better.
With the prosthetic nose, and programmed to take multiple “sniffs” of the air rather a single, long suction, the machine was 16 times more sensitive in detecting molecules in the air, the team reported in the journal Scientific Reports.
