Smell plays a key role in our ability to enjoy food. However, many people suffer from a lost, impaired, or distorted sense of smell, and this can affect health and quality of life, says a new study from Aarhus University in Denmark.
Losing your sense of smell or having it distorted affects more than your cooking and eating habits, says Alexander Wieck Fjældstad, associate professor, MD. He was part of establishing Denmark's first clinic for smell and taste, and is...
A crewless, robotic boat retracing the 1620 sea voyage of the Mayflower has landed near Plymouth Rock.
The sleek Mayflower Autonomous Ship met with an escort boat as it approached the Massachusetts shoreline Thursday, more than 400 years after its namesake's historic journey from England, Tech Xplore reports.
It was towed into Plymouth Harbor – per U.S. Coast Guard rules for crewless vessels – and docked near a replica of the original Mayflower that brought the...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has lost some of its power to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The landmark ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court represents a major setback to President Joe Biden's climate plans, the BBC reports.
He called it a "devastating decision" but said it would not undermine his effort to tackle the climate crisis.
The case against the EPA was brought by West Virginia on behalf of 18 other mostly Republican-led states and some...
(BBC) – NATO member Turkey has agreed to support Sweden and Finland's proposed membership of the alliance.
Turkey had initially opposed the Scandinavian countries' bids to join, reportedly angered by what it saw as their willingness to host Kurdish militants. Sweden and Finland could not join NATO without Turkey's support.
Russia strongly opposes the two states joining and has used the expansion of the West's defensive military alliance as a pretext for its war in Ukraine.
But Moscow's...
(University of Western Ontario) – Many who experience what is now called "long COVID" report feeling brain fog, breathless, fatigued and limited in doing everyday things, often lasting weeks or months post-infection. Using functional MRI with inhaled xenon gas, researchers have identified for the first time that these debilitating symptoms are related to microscopic abnormalities that affect how oxygen is exchanged from the lungs to red blood cells.
The LIVECOVIDFREE study, based at five centres...
(USA Today) Though it is early in the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season, the number of storms is tracking behind the frenetic pace of 2021 and 2020.
But stay vigilant, forecasters say: the U.S. is likely to see above-average activity.
By this time in 2020 and 2021, there had already been four named storms in the Atlantic – up to the "D" names. There has been one named storm this year, according to Alan Reppert, senior meteorologist...
(University of Göttingen) Over the last two decades, microscopy has seen unprecedented advances in speed and resolution. However, cellular structures are essentially three-dimensional, and conventional super-resolution techniques often lack the necessary resolution in all three directions to capture details at a nanometer scale.
A research team led by Göttingen University, including the University of Würzburg and the Center for Cancer Research in the U.S., investigated a super-resolution imaging technique that involves combining the advantages of...
A whole baby woolly mammoth has been found frozen in the permafrost of north-western Canada – the first such discovery in North America.
The mummified ice-age mammoth is thought to be more than 30,000 years old. It was found by gold miners in Yukon's Klondike region on Tuesday.
The area of the find belongs to the Tr'ondek Hwech'in First Nation.
The Yukon government compared it to Russia's discovery of a baby mammoth in the permafrost of Siberia...
Millions of women in the U.S. will lose the legal right to abortion, after the Supreme Court overturned a 50-year-old ruling that legalized it nationwide.
The court struck down the landmark Roe v Wade decision, weeks after an unprecedented leaked document suggested it favoured doing so.
The judgement will transform abortion rights in the U.S., with individual states now able to ban the procedure. Half of the 50 states are expected to introduce new restrictions or bans.
Thirteen...
Chinese electric carmaker Nio says that two people were killed when one of its vehicles fell from the third floor of its headquarters in Shanghai.
One staff member and a person from a partner company died in the crash, the BBC reports. The incident took place on Wednesday at about 17:20 local time, the firm said. The people who died were inside the vehicle as it fell from the building.
Nio says it immediately started an investigation...
