News tagged with smell
'Fear detector' being developed
Nov 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- British scientists are aiming to develop a device that can detect the smell of fear, and that could one day identify terrorists, drug smugglers, and other criminals.
Our nostrils share a rivalry too, study finds
Aug 20, 2009 |
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Your nostrils may seem to be a happy pair, working together to pick up scents. However, a study published online on August 20th in Current Biology reveals that there can actually be a kind of rivalry betwee ...
'Neurologger' reads bird brains in flight
Jun 25, 2009 |
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Using a "neurologger" specially designed to record the brain activity of pigeons in flight, researchers reporting online on June 25th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, have gained new insight into what goes t ...
Man who lost sense of smell assumed Zicam safe
Jun 18, 2009 |
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(AP) -- He was like millions of other consumers who sometimes take vitamins or echinacea, hoping to build up his immunity or ward off a cold. He figured alternative remedies were as safe as a spoonful of honey. ...
FDA says Zicam nasal spray can cause loss of smell
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jun 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Consumers should stop using Zicam Cold Remedy nasal gel and related products because they can permanently damage the sense of smell, federal health regulators said Tuesday.
Entomologists seek fungus to blunt mosquitoes' sense of smell
May 07, 2009 |
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Sick people often lose their sense of smell and their appetite. If this happened to mosquitoes, they would not be able to feed on humans and spread malaria. A team of Penn State entomologists is looking for an insect disease ...
Sniffing Out the Physical Condition of Conspecifics
May 07, 2009 |
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To date, it has been unknown exactly how mammals are capable of sniffing out whether a conspecific is ill. The biologists Prof. Marc Spehr and Daniela Flügge are following a good lead. They have discovered ...
Decrease in sense of smell seen in lupus patients
Apr 30, 2009 |
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The sense of smell is a complex process of the central nervous system that involves specific areas of the brain. In fact, olfactory dysfunction is seen in various central nervous system disorders that involve immune-mediated ...
Psychologist explores perception of fear in human sweat
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 06, 2009 |
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When threatened, many animals release chemicals as a warning signal to members of their own species, who in turn react to the signals and take action. Research by Rice University psychologist Denise Chen suggests a similar ...
Study to Test if Fading Sense of Smell Signals Onset of Parkinson's
Jan 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Many individuals with Parkinson’s disease are able to recall losing their sense of smell well before the onset of more commonly recognized symptoms such as tremors, impaired dexterity, speech problems, memory ...
Smokers see decline in ability to smell, rise in laryngitis, and upper airway issues
Nov 03, 2008 |
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As Americans prepare for a day without cigarettes and tobacco products as part of the American Cancer Society Great American Smokeout (R) (November 20), new research gives them more reasons to extend that break to a lifetime, ...
T.rex 'followed its nose' while hunting
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Oct 29, 2008 |
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Although we know quite a bit about the lifestyle of dinosaur; where they lived, what they ate, how they walked, not much was known about their sense of smell, until now.
New research shows that the smell of smoke does not trigger relapse in quitters
Oct 17, 2008 |
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Research into tobacco dependence published online today in the November issue of Addiction, has shown that recent ex-smokers who find exposure to other people's cigarette smoke pleasant are not any more likely to relapse than t ...
In lean times, flies can't survive without their sense of smell
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Jul 31, 2008 |
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It's not just bomb-sniffing dogs; animals everywhere rely on their sense of smell. Now, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Rockefeller University researchers show just how important olfaction is, proving that fruit flies ...
Do birds have a good sense of smell?
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Jul 16, 2008 |
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The sense of smell might indeed be as important to birds as it is to fish or even mammals. This is the main conclusion of a study by Silke Steiger (Max Planck Institute for Ornithology) and her colleagues. ...
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