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Smelling flowersFlowers offer a unique sensory pleasure. Their scent molecules travel a direct route to the brain, impacting memory and emotions. This trig...- How to keep mosquitoes away using burnt coffee powderTired of mosquito bites and chemical repellents? Burnt coffee powder offers a simple, natural, and effective way to keep mosquitoes away. T...
- This Kitchen Trick Helps Prevent Unpleasant Smells Without Chemical SpraysKitchen odors, often tackled with chemical sprays, can be effectively neutralized by baking soda. This common pantry staple, sodium bicarbo...
- Why Bears Risk Human Encounters for Scented Trash: The Science Behind Their Impossible Super-SmellBears possess an incredible sense of smell, far surpassing humans. This powerful ability draws them to human food sources like trash. Their...
- Blame your parents for how food smells to you, your genes play a major roleA groundbreaking genetic study reveals that our DNA significantly influences how we perceive and react to everyday smells. Researchers iden...
- Dengue mosquito is a much smarter predator than thought, it uses a stealth mode to hunt humans even without smell, study findsAedes aegypti mosquitoes, known for spreading diseases, exhibit remarkable adaptability by using heat detection when their sense of smell i...
- AI is cracking a hard problem - giving computers a sense of smellAlexander Graham Bell urged National Geographic readers over 100 years ago to pioneer a new science of odour. Today, advancements in machin...
- Study finds trained scent dogs can detect Covid more effectively than RT-PCR testsStudies have shown that trained scent dogs are more efficient and accurate in detecting COVID-19 infections compared to the conventional RT...
- Mosquito magnet or plain unaffected? Entomologist explains why some people attract more, some lessWhether or not you're a mosquito magnet, their bites feel just as itchy!
- Revealed: How the Coronavirus steals the sense of smellInsights gleaned from new research could shed new light on how the coronavirus might affect other types of brain cells, leading to conditio...
- Mutations, unusual symptoms, and other COVID-19 mysteries that remain unsolvedMany patient samples had also yielded false positive in dengue diagnosis tests.
- Body odour can help diagnose and treat cancer, says new studySmell receptors in the body could help diagnose and treat diseases such as cancer, a review of over 200 studies has found.
- Human sense of smell as good as that of dogs: StudyNew York, May 12 (IANS) Contrary to a long-held misconception, the human sense of smell is not inferior but may be just as good as that of ...
- Bill Gates funds development of odour-free toilets for IndiaThe billionaire philanthropist's to create a poop smell blocker with the hope to make smelly toilets a thing of past and make a difference ...
- Odour receptors found in human lung tissueLondon, Nov 4 (IANS) It was always thought that the sole bodily function of olfactory receptors was to smell and they could only be found i...
- After genome sequencing, scientists find 95% similarity in Asian, African elephantsScientists have also sequenced the 'transcriptome' – the complete set of RNA from a population of cells - of the Asian elephant for the fir...
- Bio-sensor to give machines human-like smelling abilityIt could have many industrial uses such as telling when food has gone off. It could even be accurate enough to smell how much pollution is ...
- Super smeller? Not dogs, but African elephantsIt has been scientifically proven that the African elephant has the most powerful sense of smell in the entire animal kingdom.
- Indians won't fork out for extra aromaIndians have traditionally never had much use for cutlery to aid the ingestion of food.
- Who nose how much we can really smell?Quotidian remit of the 400 olfactory receptors in human noses are between yum and yuck, considering they have the capacity to outperform th...
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