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Why your sense of smell might affect how long you live. And talking fish!

Why your sense of smell might affect how long you live, news for asthma sufferers, dinosaur descendants and the search for extraterrestrial life.

Some of the latest discoveries from the scientific and technological community with Chris Smith and Kat Arney. This week we're getting up your nose as we hear why your sense of smell might affect how long you live. We have news that could make life easier for asthma sufferers. We find out about a bit of the human brain that may have developed to help us speak. We discover the dinosaur descendants flying over our heads. Deep underwater we hear from some baby fish. And we take a longer look at the latest science of the search for life in space.

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