--- title: Five Best: Dog Noses Can Help Us Diagnose Cancer description: Super-sensitive dog noses could improve how we diagnose cancer, do psychopaths really make good CEOs and more. canonical: https://time.com/4754005/dog-noses-can-help-us-diagnose-cancer/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-25T16:00:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:54.276Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Dog Noses Can Help Us Diagnose Cancer og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4754005/dog-noses-can-help-us-diagnose-cancer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Dog Noses Can Help Us Diagnose Cancer twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Dog Noses Can Help Us Diagnose Cancer by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 25, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 25, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Super-sensitive dog noses could improve how we diagnose cancer.**](http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future%5Ftense/2017/04/how%5Fdogs%5Fsensitive%5Fnoses%5Fcould%5Fchange%5Fcancer%5Fdiagnosis.html) By Kathryn Bowers in _Slate_ **2\.** [**Do psychopaths really make good CEOs?**](https://daily.jstor.org/do-psychopaths-make-good-ceos/) By Farah Mohammed in _JSTOR Daily_ **3\.** [**Here’s how to close the gap for first-generation college students.**](http://www.chronicle.com/article/Closing-the-Gap-for/239795) By Kathleen McCartney in the _Chronicle of Higher Education_ **4\.** [**We can save lives by raising the legal smoking age to 21.**](http://www.startribune.com/edina-is-on-a-smart-track-to-raise-smoking-age-to-21/420124743/) By the editorial board of the _Star Tribune_ **5\.** [**Know a kid who thinks science is boring? Here’s how to bring STEM education alive.**](http://expandedschools.org/blog/4-ways-engage-kids-stem-straight-design2learn-classrooms#sthash.JMzRJVgu.4qBTbdjE.dpbs) By Emma Banay at _ExpandED Schools_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4754005/dog-noses-can-help-us-diagnose-cancer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4754005/dog-noses-can-help-us-diagnose-cancer/"},"headline":"Dog Noses Can Help Us Diagnose Cancer","datePublished":"2017-04-25T16:00:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:54.276Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4754005/dog-noses-can-help-us-diagnose-cancer/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Education","Smoking","Cancer","STEM","Business"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4754005/dog-noses-can-help-us-diagnose-cancer/","name":"Dog Noses Can Help Us Diagnose Cancer"}}]}] ```