News tagged with bad smells
Early scents really do get 'etched' in the brain
Common experience tells us that particular scents of childhood can leave quite an impression, for better or for worse. Now, researchers reporting the results of a brain imaging study online on November 5th ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 05, 2009 |
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The art of telling it like it isn't
There are certain things in life we'd rather not conjure up too vividly, and for this we have at our disposal a range of linguistic deodorisers, smokescreens and fig leaves. These are euphemisms. They are ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
22 hours ago |
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LIVE: Facebook goes public
(AP) -- It's Facebook's big day. The site, which was born in a dorm room eight years ago and has grown into a worldwide network of almost a billion people, is making the most talked-about stock market debut ...
May 18, 2012 |
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A new category of heel: The customer service saboteur
There are jerks, and then there are jerks.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
May 17, 2012 |
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In log coffins, first glimpses of a mysterious Asian people
(Phys.org) -- Dendrochronologist Brendan Buckley’s usual occupation is drilling straw-like cores from old trees and extracting information about past climates by studying their rings. To extend the ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 09, 2012 |
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Pa. woman: Chemicals in my water in drilling area
(AP) -- A woman says state environmental officials refused to do follow-up tests after their lab reported her drinking water contained chemicals, but it's unclear where the pollutants came from.
Feb 24, 2012 |
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Attack or retreat? Circuit links hunger and pursuit in sea slug brain
If you were a blind, cannibalistic sea slug, living among others just like you, nearly every encounter with another creature would require a simple cost/benefit calculation: Should I eat that, do nothing or ...
Jan 25, 2012 |
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Diseases and sex: The cocktail maintaining immune gene variation
The great variation of a specific form of immune genes makes organ transplants so complicated. On the other hand, we need such a great variability in order to resist infectious diseases. This is why it also ...
Jan 10, 2012 |
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Researchers create first of its kind gene map of sulfate-reducing bacterium
Critical genetic secrets of a bacterium that holds potential for removing toxic and radioactive waste from the environment have been revealed in a study by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s ...
Nov 09, 2011 |
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Apple plans massive solar farm in North Carolina
Permits dug up by the Charlotte Observer have revealed Apple Inc.'s plan to build a gigantic solar farm to help power its recently built $1 billion data center in North Carolina. Apple has not formally announced the project ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Nov 01, 2011 |
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Scary is exciting -- sheep's head is not for wimps
Sheep's head is not for wimps. Until now very few of us have been tempted by this traditional Norwegian dish.
Oct 20, 2011 |
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