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...
created by Jason Sanders | 51 wks ago | updated 50 wks ago
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889 views | 18 recommendations | 20 comments
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...
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...
created by Terri Potratz | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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302 views | 17 recommendations | 7 comments
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... 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...
created by Yuliya Talmazan | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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254 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
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...
created by Terri Potratz | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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455 views | 7 recommendations | 4 comments
