Health
A type of antibiotics can cause hearing loss – and now we know why
Aminoglycoside antibiotics can save lives, but the drugs can also cause hearing loss because of the toxic effect they have on sensory cells in the ear
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Mind
How people with extreme imagination are helping explain consciousness
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Health
Damaged sense of smell fixed in mice by squirting stem cells up nose
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Life
What makes a good smell? Inside a multibillion dollar aromatic mystery
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Life
We still don’t know how some animals find their way on huge migrations
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Health
A bad sense of smell predicts early death but we don’t know why
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Humans
Find tonic water bitter? Part of your brain may be on the small side
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Health
The ultimate kitchen: the Danish food lab designing our future meals
Regulars
Seeking the perfect cocktail? Let science be your bartender
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Technology
Computer chip will sniff your armpits and tell you when you have BO
Technology firm Arm is building computer chips that will smell their surroundings. It wants to use them to spot gone-off food and to tell people if they have BO
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Mind
The truth behind ASMR and the craze for videos causing ‘head orgasms’
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Technology
Electric chewing gum zaps your tongue to create a virtual flavour hit
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Life
The colour blind octopus that mastered the art of disguise
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Health
The whiff of sandalwood makes the human head sprout more hair
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