Science news articles about 'human nose'

  • Human nose too cold for bird flu, says new study

    ... 32 degrees Celsius, the temperature inside the human nose. The researchers say this is probably because the viruses ... normal avian flu virus infected a human nose, the virus would not be able to grow ...
  • Research aims for artificial nose

    A scientific advance could mean scientists could build a sensor which mimics the workings of the human nose.
  • Nose cells help spinal injury healing

    Cells from the human nose have been used to partially repair spinal injuries in mice trials, making a promising move towards a human treatment.
  • The State of the Art of Electronic Noses

    ... all know that. But what about a rose smelled by a non-human nose? What would it smell like? Well ... 'd lose some of the poetry. But a new generation of e-noses is is poised to give a whole new meaning to ...
  • Bad breath? Mouthrinses work, but some cause temporary staining

    ... placebos in reducing mouth odours, as judged by human noses. Mouthrinses containing chlorine dioxide ... trend for electronic assessment of mouth odours, the human nose should remain the gold standard. ...
  • Sequences capture the code of the common cold

    ... a virus and devise antiviral agents to thwart infection. The sequenced cold viruses, which were collected from human noses worldwide, fall primarily into two broad species categories or serotypes of ...
  • How moths key into the scent of a flower

    ... . "It flew upwind to the flower and stuck out its proboscis at the flower." He suspects that human noses and brains also work by homing in on just a few distinctive chemicals in any particular smell. ...
  • New way to make sensors that detect toxic chemicals

    ... The design works on the same general principle as another, much more familiar sensor. "The human nose coordinates signals from hundreds of thousands of sensory neurons to identify chemicals," Beach ...
  • Ripe pineapple and delicious pork

    ... for reproduction. What the female pig finds attractive, however, smells anything but pleasant to human noses. It's true that most pigs are slaughtered well before sexual maturity – before any odorous ...

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