Your Best Friend Probably Smells Like You

The microbes that crawl all over us give us our unique scents. And research shows that not only do we prefer our own, but we tend to choose friends with a similar smell. Hosted by: Savannah Geary ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Alex Hackman, Ash, Benjamin Carleski, Bryan Cloer, charles george, Chris Mackey, Chris Peters, Christoph Schwanke, Christopher R Boucher, DrakoEsper, Eric Jensen, Friso, Garrett Galloway, Harrison Mills, J. Copen, Jaap Westera, Jason A Saslow, Jeffrey Mckishen, Jeremy Mattern, Kenny Wilson, Kevin Bealer, Kevin Knupp, Lyndsay Brown, Matt Curls, Michelle Dove, Piya Shedden, Rizwan Kassim, Sam Lutfi ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow #SciShow #science #education #learning #complexly ---------- Sources: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022202X15462256 https://elifesciences.org/articles/34995 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0111833 https://academic.oup.com/chemse/article/30/8/651/398759?login=false https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10886-006-9098-8 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0162309580900096?via%3Dihub https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn0154 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9405088/ Images https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skin_Microbiome20169-300.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Enose_prototype_Analytical_Dept_Chemical_Faculty_GUT_Gdansk.jpg https://www.gettyimages.com