Can the right smell make you more productive?
With more people working from home there's growing interest in making the home smell better......»»
COVID-19: Reduced sense of taste and smell lingers
Patients with mild COVID-19 infections experience a significantly increased longer lasting reduced sense of taste and smell. This is also the case for long-term shortness of breath, although relatively few people are affected. And women and the elder.....»»
Is reality a game of quantum mirrors? A new theory suggests it might be
Imagine you sit down and pick up your favorite book. You look at the image on the front cover, run your fingers across the smooth book sleeve, and smell that familiar book smell as you flick through the pages. To you, the book is made up of a range o.....»»
The Secret Workings of Smell Receptors, Revealed At Last
Researchers have finally seen how some of them bind to odor molecules—yielding new insights into one of the most mysterious and versatile senses......»»
5 simple tricks to make your email routine more productive and less of a burden
Email isn't supposed to be a time-sucking, attention-stealing, always-on stress inducer. Here's how to take back control and make your inbox a productivity tool.....»»
Odd smell: Flies sniff ammonia in a way new to science
The stink of ammonia in urine, sweat, and rotting meat repels humans, but many insects find ammonia alluring. Now, UConn researchers have figured out how the annoying insects smell it, a discovery that could lead to better ways to make them buzz off......»»
Quantum birds: Shedding light on the mechanism of magnetic sensing in birds
Humans perceive the world around them with five senses—vision, hearing, taste, smell and touch. Many other animals are also able to sense the Earth's magnetic field. For some time, a collaboration of biologists, chemists and physicists centered at.....»»
Super productive 3D bioprinter could help speed up drug development
A new 3D bioprinter developed by nanoengineers operates at record speed -- it can print a 96-well array of living human tissue samples within 30 minutes. The technology could help accelerate high-throughput preclinical drug screening and make it less.....»»
Smell-O-Vision: This nose-zapping wearable simulates smell using electricity
Digital reproduction of sights and sounds is pretty common, but thanks to a new invention, it might soon be possible to digitally simulate smells......»»
Intel reveals Xe-HPG DG2 gaming GPU, confirms 512 execution units
Koduri tweeted that Intel has been testing the GPU at its Folsom, California lab, adding that game and driver optimization is the next step for the team. "Xe-HPG (DG2) real candy – very productive time at the Folsom lab couple of weeks ago," Koduri.....»»
Male piglets less resilient to stress when moms get sick during pregnancy
When pigs get hit with significant illnesses during key stages of pregnancy, their immune response may negatively affect developing piglets, making them less productive on the farm. New research from the University of Illinois shows that when those p.....»»
Small "snowflakes" in the sea play a big role
In the deep waters that underlie the productive zones of the ocean, there is a constant rain of organic material called "marine snow." Marine snow does not only look like real snow but also behaves similarly: Large flakes are rare and fall quickly wh.....»»
Browning could make lakes less productive, affecting food webs and fish
As more dissolved organic matter enters lakes across the northeast United States, darkening the lakes in a phenomena called "browning," new research shows that these waters may be growing less productive and able to sustain less life. In a study publ.....»»
How more inclusive lab meetings lead to better science
A new paper, published recently in PLOS Computational Biology by a team including UMass Amherst researchers, seeks to help scientists structure their lab-group meetings so that they are more inclusive, more productive and, ultimately, lead to better.....»»
The best Windows apps for 2021
Choosing the right apps is hard. Here are the best Windows apps, whether you need to stay productive at work or watch your shows......»»
Teaching in English seems to have no negative impact on students" Swedish
Upper secondary schools are increasingly offering teaching in English in several subjects. This has prompted a debate about the status of Swedish and raised fears that students' productive Swedish will be compromised. However, a new thesis provides e.....»»
Volvo"s oldest, most productive car plant now climate neutral
Volvo's Torslanda factory, near Gothenburg, is the Swedish automaker's first vehicle assembly plant to achieve climate neutrality......»»
Training bees to smell the coronavirus
Start-up InsectSense and Wageningen Bioveterinary Research have trained bees to extend their tongues when they smell the coronavirus. The coronavirus, like other diseases, causes metabolic changes in the body that causes a smell. Bees can be trained.....»»
Mouse plague: Bromadiolone will obliterate mice—and eagles, snakes and owls, too
It's the smell that hits you first. The scent of urine and decomposing bodies. Then you notice other signs: scuttles and squeaks, small dead bodies leaking blood, tails sticking out of hubcaps......»»
First-of-its-kind flower smells like dead insects to imprison "coffin flies"
The plant Aristolochia microstoma uses a unique trick: its flowers emit a fetid-musty scent that seems to mimic the smell of decomposing insects. Flies from the genus Megaselia (family Phoridae) likely get attracted to this smell while searching for.....»»
Researchers isolate new lignanamides with antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities from W. ugandensis
Warburgia ugandensis, a kind of evergreen tree with a distinctive aromatic smell belonging to the Canellaceae family, is mainly distributed in Eastern and Southern Africa, with a few in India. As a well-known traditional medicinal plant in local comm.....»»