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Health

Parkinson's disease may reduce enjoyment of pleasant smells

The "world smells different" for people with Parkinson's disease, a discovery that could help doctors spot the condition sooner

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Health

Having radio waves beamed into our head ramps up our sense of smell

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Why honing your sense of smell could keep you sharp as you age

Health

Why honing your sense of smell could keep you sharp as you age

Features

PPW5E4 The Nose art installation in St. Lorenz, Austria

Health

How we could achieve dog-level sense of smell – and what it would mean

Comment

The human sense of smell is quite good, and matters more than you know

Mind

The human sense of smell is quite good, and matters more than you know

Comment

Why we now think the myopia epidemic can be slowed – or even reversed

Health

Why we now think the myopia epidemic can be slowed – or even reversed

Features

Mind

Your brain has individual neurons that respond to the smell of bananas

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Handout film still from Cyborg: A Documentary. Colour-blind artist Neil Harbisson is the world?s first formally-recognised cyborg. He has an antenna implanted in his head that allows him to ?hear? colour. Now Neil is on a mission to convince the world to follow him and adopt his credo: Design Yourself. Neil?s childhood friend Moon Ribas has collaborated with him on his journey. A dancer and choreographer, she has had implants in her arm and foot which allow her to perceive earthquakes from all over the planet as vibrations in her body. In Carey Born?s engaging documentary Neil and Moon confront their detractors head-on, communicating their controversial ideas about the technological future of humankind.

Technology

Documentary tells the fascinating story of a man wired to hear colour

Culture

Life

Odd bump on praying mantis chest is actually world’s weirdest tongue

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The hippocampus in a mouse's brain, composed of rat cells (red) and nuclei of both mouse and rat cells (blue)

Mind

Rat neuron injection lets mice that can’t smell sniff out cookies

Mice that had been genetically modified to lack the ability to smell could sniff out hidden cookies when sensory neurons from rats were grown in their brains

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Health

A new understanding of tinnitus and deafness could help reverse both

Features

Mind

The art of olfaction should take its place alongside other art forms

Comment

Mind

People’s ‘speed of sight’ varies and this may explain sporting prowess

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Life

Weird ways that animals experience the world differently to us

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