Ethyl Acrylate Stinks Up New Orleans

The people of New Orleans have had to deal with many things: annoying tourists trying to get them to take their tops off, killer hurricanes, incompetent leaders who don't protect them from killer hurricanes, and now a never ending cloud of stank. In St. Charles Parish, a Dow...

Mardi Gras transforms New Orleans into waste bin

As Mardi Gras continues in New Orleans today, aside from the scantily clad dancing girls, the parties, the drunk people falling all over themselves in the street, there is also the unmistakable smell of trash...

Oxford's Kebab 'don' moved on by council

Saeid Keshmiri is Oxford's self styled 'Kebab don' able to talk about and make Kebabs with the same eloquence as the University's other professors or 'dons' as they are known. Saeid has run Sid's Kitchen for...

New Web site in Japan maps out smells

It may sound strange and unbelieveable but a group of enterprising people in Japan have developed a website which can identify the geographical location of human being with their odours. " Launched in December, the "Nioi-bu," or Smell Club, has registered more than 160...

Women Can Smell a Man's Intentions

Recent research has shown that socio-emotional meanings, including sexual ones, are conveyed in human sweat.  Researchers at the Rice University in Texas found that women can subconsciously sniff out men who...

Town tries to take pony away from disabled 3 year-old

Sam Spiteri, a 3 year old with spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy, has enjoyed the company of his miniature pony, Emily, for most of his life; but, the town of Caledon may take away the boy's companion because of...

Boy blows up bathroom while sitting on toilet - ouch!

A 13-year-old boy suffered serious injuries when he accidentally blew up his bathroom whilst sitting on the toilet - by lighting air freshener he sprayed because the room smelled so badly! Dennis, from North-Rhine...

Gas smell tipped off club boss about car bomb

One of the two bombs that failed to go off in London earlier this year was discovered by a nightclub owner after he smelled gas, and discovered the car parked outside his packed venue. "A NIGHT CLUB boss yesterday told how the smell of gas tipped him off to a car bomb outside...

T-shirt sniffing the way to a woman's heart

Forget after-shave. Research shows that women really are attracted to the natural body smells of men and in particular to men who smell distinctly different to themselves.Other research has shown us that we are...

Scientists Genetically Transplant Flower Smells

Scientists have discovered how to transplant scents from one flower to another through genetics, and also boost the smell of flowers up to 10 times, according to research published in the Plant Biotechnology...

New pest control: mites sniff “death,” go into debilitating hibernation

Spider mites have been found to go into hibernating sleep upon sniffing a predator attack on another mite nearby. "Martijn Egas and colleagues at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands noticed that when...

For Sweet Dreams, Smell Sweet Smells

15 sleepers volunteered in a study at the University Hospital Mannheim in Germany to see if smells influence the way we dream.  Once subjects entered deep REM sleep, researcher Boris Stuck exposed each...

FireFighters Fight Separate House Fires

"(WIVB) - It was a busy night for volunteer firefighters across western New York. Firefighters are still trying to determine what sparked two house fires overnight. A tanker truck provided the water...

Help, I'm turning into my mother

"(LifeWire) -- Stacy Pearson keeps buying food she knows she'll never eat -- from tomato soup to green beans to ramen noodles -- merely because it's on sale. Why? Blame her mother. ...

Machine 'sniffs out skin cancer'

"A common form of skin cancer could be diagnosed by the distinctive chemical "scent" it gives off, say US experts. Philadelphia's Monell Center sampled the air directly above basal cell carcinomas and found it was different to similar samples from healthy skin. They told a...

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