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https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/your-sense-of-smell-is-actually-pretty-amazing/
Apr 27, 2017...
Our sense of smell is incredibly fine tuned. Pixabay
The following is an excerpt from FLAVOR: The Science of Our Most Neglected Sense by Bob Holmes:
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https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/not-to-be-sniffed-at/
Dec 09, 2010...
For those people who have no other means of communication, sniffing could provide liberation
To suffer from locked-in syndrome—to be mentally alert but phy ... Read more
Feb 24, 2020... Think about the last time you had a cold. Think how weird it felt to not be able to smell or taste anything just because your nose was clogged up. That is, to a ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/science-tips-june-2015/
Jun 29, 2015... Normal human colonic crypts. SMOC-2 expression (red) in the colonic stem cells demonstrates that these cells are localized in the bottoms of the crypts. Bars re ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/feature-stories/placing-that-smell/
Apr 01, 2011...
(l-r) Drs. Hadas Lipid and Sagit Shushan, Prof. Noam Sobel, and Drs. Anton Plotkin and Elad Schneidman. Smelling good
Certain smells cause us pleasure or d ... Read more
Jan 17, 2011...
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A new study in Israel finds that a woman’s tears have a physical and psychological effect on men. The ... Read more
Mar 17, 2019... Taking a deep breath in through the nose appears to help the human brain create a laser-like focus on visuospatial tasks, according to a new study by a team of ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/autism-and-the-smell-of-fear/
Nov 27, 2017...
Skydivers provided the smell of fear for investigating how autistic men react to odors
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—November 27, 2017— Autism typically involves the ina ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/noses-agree-when-genes-see-eye-to-eye/
Jun 29, 2015... Two decades ago, Swiss researchers had women smell the tee shirts that various men had slept in for two nights. Turned out that if women liked the aroma of a pa ... Read more
Jan 15, 2017...
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How do humans and other animals find their way from A to B? This apparently simple question has no easy answer. But after decades ... Read more
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