One sense can pull you back in time faster than any other. Catch the smell of modeling clay and you might suddenly reca…
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Overall, people pay little attention to how odor pollution affects health and quality of life. Unpleasant smells are often treated as ordinary and insignificant. Researchers say people value their sense…
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Researchers from the Technical University of Dresden (Germany), the Monell Chemical Senses Center (USA), the University of East Anglia, University College London, and the charity SmellTaste (UK) say a diminished…
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German researchers have discovered that the loss of smell could be one of the first signs of developing dementia. This finding emerged from observations of mice, PET scans of patients,…
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Humans can recognize a scent in just 0.06 seconds. That’s about a third of the time it takes to blink and nearly as long as it takes to identify a…
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After a spacewalk, astronauts returning to the ISS often describe an unexpected smell. They compare it to burnt steak, spent gunpowder, or hot metal. Why does space smell like that?…
