Smell
Our Changing World for 1 March 2018
Waikato University researchers are training pet dogs to sniff out pest fish that are a problem in Waikato lakes and rivers. Audio
Why some clothes get smellier than others
Otago University scientists have been looking into why some clothes get much smellier than others. Audio
Is our sense of smell making us fatter?
Could our sense of smell be an important factor behind the fact that so many of us are overweight? Andy Dillin at the University of California, Berkeley, was involved in a study on mice that found… Audio
The Super Smell Sensor
New Zealand scientists are using special smell sensing proteins harvested from the cloned cells of insect antennae to develope a super smell sensor. They hope to use them as part of a device which… Audio
Smelling food can cause weight gain
Smelling food can cause weight gain - research in the US found. Audio
Science news: sperm in space and why we shun the sick
This week, ground-breaking research into how and why flamingoes can stand on one leg; why we tend to shun people who are sick; and the survival of human sperm in space. Audio
A cure for smelly armpits?
Chris Callewaert, a post doctoral scholar from the University of California, San Diego has disovered that replacing the underarm bacteria of a very smelly person, with the bacteria from a less smelly… Audio
Why are our seabirds eating plastic?
Loads of plastic rubbish finds its way into the sea every year and seabirds are hunting it out and eating it, fooled into thinking it's food by the way it smells. Matt Savoca of the University of… Audio
Stuart Firestein: ignorance, failure, and how we smell
Kim Hill talks to neuroscientist Dr Stuart Firestein, Chair of Columbia University's Department of Biological Sciences, whose lab studies the vertebrate olfactory system, seeking answers to the… Audio
How food marketers are leading us by the nose
The food industry regularly uses aromas to encourage us to eat and drink more. But now some are experimenting with synthetic aromas, in packaging and advertising: is this the new frontier of food and… Audio
Unusual smell may be new way to detect Parkinson's early
A woman's acute sense of smell may lead to a new way of detecting Parkinson's disease. Audio
Richard Newcomb: sense of smell
Chief scientist at Plant and Food Research, Professor of Evolutionary Genetics at the University of Auckland, and Principal Investigator at the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution… Audio
Fowl Smells Save Native Birds - Grant Norbury
Could the smell of a chicken throw predators off the scent of our native birds? Dr Grant Norbury is hoping to prove his theory that could, in an ideal world, help to save the 25-million native birds… Audio
Wine science
Chris Simms from the New Scientist has been looking at the science of terroir and why wine tastes the way it does. Audio
An elephant's sense of smell
Training African elephants to sniff out TNT and landmines. The US military's even interested in Sean Hensman's studies in South Africa. Audio
Why does rain smell good?
Cullen Buie of MIT has been studying rain, and why it can smell so good when it hits the ground. Audio
Smelly factory makes neighbour want to vomit
One Christchurch local has told regional councillors that the smell for a nearby gelatin factory makes her want to vomit and stops her from going outside. Audio
Gelatine factory wants council to give more time to fix smell
A Christchurch factory that has been the subject of hundreds of complaints about its offensive smell is today asking the regional council to give it three more years to fix the odour problems. Audio
Retirement village told to get rid of pong
A retirement village owner has been told to get rid of a smell that has been annoying neighbours for two and a half years. Audio
Jayant Pinto: smell and death
Specialist in sinus and nasal diseases, and lead author of a recently published study on how the inability of older adults to identify scents is a strong predictor of death within five years. Audio
