It's no secret that babies generally smell pleasant to their mothers—and teenagers not so much. A team of researchers investigating how body odors affect the mother-child relationship found that a mom's olfactory sense ...
Mar 4, 2020
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Odors surround us, providing cues about many aspects of personal identity, including health status. Now, research from the Monell Center extends the scope and significance of personal odors as a source of information about ...
Sep 24, 2018
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Your Uber driver really needs a shower. A co-worker should change his socks. You wonder whether your gym's management might have a word with a particularly smelly regular.
Mar 5, 2018
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Move over sniffer dogs, people who witnessed a crime are able to identify criminals by their smell. Police lineups normally rely on sight, but nose-witnesses can be just as reliable as eye-witnesses, new research published ...
Jun 9, 2016
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Our understanding of the role of body odor in conveying personal information continues to grow. New research from the Monell Chemical Senses Center and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reveals that immunization can ...
Apr 2, 2014
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New findings from the Monell Center reveal that humans can identify the age of other humans based on differences in body odor. Much of this ability is based on the capacity to identify odors of elderly individuals, and contrary ...
May 30, 2012
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(Medical Xpress) -- An interesting study conducted by Polish researchers Agnieszka Sorokowska, Piotr Sorokowski and Andrzej Szmajke, of the University of Wroclaw, has found that people are able to guess a person’s type ...
Since the smoking ban in restaurants, bars and nightclubs, customers are more aware of unpleasant smells, such as body odors and the smell of old beer, that used to be masked by cigarette smoke. Now science is looking at ...
May 17, 2011
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