News tagged with body odors
New mosquito repellant could be frightening ... for the mosquitoes!
In a small, narrow, temperature-controlled lab room at Vanderbilt University live some of the most deadly and dangerous animals in the world.
Feb 28, 2012 |
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Microbial communities on skin affect humans' attractiveness to mosquitoes
The microbes on your skin determine how attractive you are to mosquitoes, which may have important implications for malaria transmission and prevention, according to a study published Dec. 28 in the online journal PLoS ON ...
Dec 28, 2011 |
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Can gulls smell out a good partner?
Male and female kittiwakes smell different from each other, according to research by Sarah Leclaire from the Centre national de la recherche scientifique at the Université Paul Sabatier in France and her team. Their ...
Jul 06, 2011 |
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Lollipops with side effects: Plant's sugary offering betrays caterpillars to predatory ants
Trichomes, hair-like projections on leaves, are part of a plant's defense against herbivores: they can be obstacles, traps, or reservoirs for toxic substances. The hairs of wild tobacco Nicotiana attenuata ...
Apr 25, 2011 |
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Heavier people are better at 'smelling' food
People who have a higher Body Mass Index (BMI) have a greater sense of smell when it comes to food, a new study has found.
Nov 16, 2010 |
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New insights into the 'smell of death' could help recover bodies in disasters and solve crimes
In an advance toward the first portable device for detecting human bodies buried in disasters and at crime scenes, scientists today report early results from a project to establish the chemical fingerprint ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Aug 17, 2009 |
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Wet ear wax and unpleasant body odors signal breast cancer risk
If having malodorous armpits (called osmidrosis) and goopy earwax isn't bad enough, a discovery by Japanese scientists may add a more serious problem for women facing these cosmetic calamities. That's because they've found ...
Jun 01, 2009 |
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A woman's nose knows body odor
It may be wise to trust the female nose when it comes to body odor. According to new research from the Monell Center, it is more difficult to mask underarm odor when women are doing the smelling.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 07, 2009 |
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