LIKE almost every dieter in America, Wendy Bassett has used all sorts of weight-loss products. Nothing worked, she said, until she tried Sensa: granules she scatters on almost everything she eats, and which are supposed to make dieters less hungry by enhancing the smell and taste of food.
— Read more at A Slimmer You May Be a Whiff Away at The New York Times, with many thanks to Jessica for the link!
The electronic nose, which is to be installed on the International Space Station in order to automatically monitor the station's air, can detect contaminants within a range of one to approximately 10,000 parts per million. In a series of experiments, the Brain Mapping Foundation used NASA's electronic nose to sniff brain cancer cells and cells in other organs. Their data demonstrates that the electronic nose can sense differences in odour from normal versus cancerous cells.
From NASA's Electronic Nose May Provide Neurosurgeons With A New Weapon Against Brain Cancer at Science Daily.
Making Sense of Scents is a new educational program for children in grades 3 through 5:
The power of scent is a remarkable thing, yet until fairly recently a clear understanding of how it worked remained a mystery. The Sense of Smell Institute, together with The Weekly Reader, The Fragrance Foundation and Les Christophs worked together to develop a fun, inter-active and highly educational kit, “Making Sense of your Scents!” to help students understand how the sense of smell works and the important role it plays in their daily lives. This is a first-of-its-kind program…
Scientists were able to train the honeybees to associate two similar odors with different nectar rewards. The results left little doubt over what honeybees like to sip: soda-sweet nectar.
"Bees tend to like sugary solutions that are about equivalent to the concentration of sugar in Coca Cola (around 30 percent sucrose)," lead author Geraldine Wright told Discovery News.
— From Honeybees Don't Fall for Cheap Perfume at The Discovery Channel.
If the start-up company Basisnote get their way, we will soon not only be able to match looks and interests in the profile of a potential partner with our own preferences. Now even the individual smell of the other party can be recorded in the profile and then checked to see if it will be pleasant for us. Even before going on the first date.
— From Odor Matching: The Scent Of Internet Dating at Science Daily.