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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 374

smells

A rat at the lab of Early, where the rodents detect lung cancer (courtesy of Early)
February 14, 2023, 12:09 pm
Lab claims it teaches rats to detect lung cancer with 93% accuracy by sniffing urine
Making practical use of the fact that cancers have odors, rat-powered testing could be available within about 14 months, says the team at Israeli startup Early
By Nathan Jeffay
Illustrative: An Israeli study shows that people are drawn to friends who smell the same as them. (MirkoVuckovic/iStock/Getty)
June 25, 2022, 3:17 am
Friends at first sniff: Study shows people are drawn to others who smell like them
Research by Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science finds that in making friends, people often ‘click’ with those who smell similar, before establishing other common interests
By Issam Ahmed
Illustrative image: An aggressively protective mom with her newborn (nicoletaionescu via iStock by Getty)
November 22, 2021, 11:46 am
Babies emit smell to get aggressively loyal moms and mellow dads, Israeli study says
Scientists astounded that chemical on newborns’ heads has opposite effect on men and women, but say it’s logical because kids are safest with protective mother, unaggressive father
By Nathan Jeffay
A fuel tank owned by a Europe Asia Pipeline Company factory just outside of the southern city of Ashkelon, where a fuel leak occurred in late November 2020. (Environmental Protection Ministry)
March 16, 2021, 3:09 pm
Green Police open criminal probe into state-owned pipeline over benzene leak
Environmental Protection Ministry says secretive Europe Asia Pipeline Company allegedly violated several laws, after initial investigation into Ashkelon toxic event
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: A woman cooking and sharing the sight via cellphone. Israeli scientists say people will soon be able to share smells. (Andrii Lysenko via iStock by Getty Images)
November 11, 2020, 6:05 pm
Digitizing odors: Israelis whiff the future with ‘smellophone’ tech breakthrough
Weizmann Institute team says it has created a molecular ‘smell map’ that can be used to recreate almost any scent on earth, potentially sending what you sniff around the globe
By Nathan Jeffay
Illustrative image of a nose (RusN; iStock by Getty Images)
April 30, 2020, 5:40 pm
Israel scientists develop ‘sniff test’ that predicts consciousness recovery
Weizmann Institute study published in Nature; all of the brain-injured patients who responded to odors in the test regained consciousness, researchers say
By Shoshanna Solomon
Illustrative image of garlic ( Abir Sultan/Flash90)
April 7, 2020, 6:08 am
Amid confusion over virus symptoms, Israeli scientist creates a sniff test tool
Smell garlic and toothpaste and save lives from coronavirus: It’s not a folk cure, but a Weizmann Institute initiative, and 200 people an hour are joining
By Nathan Jeffay
A woman smells the flowers at a street market on the eve of the International Women's Day in Minsk, Belarus on March 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
November 8, 2019, 3:49 pm
Israeli scientists: Some women smell without olfactory bulbs
Researchers at Weizmann Institute stumped by inadvertent discovery that around 4% of left-handed women can process odor even though they are missing necessary region of brain
By ToI Staff
The Adler family. (Screen capture: WPLG Local 10)
January 25, 2019, 8:32 am
Jewish family claims kicked off plane due to religion, not body odor
Yossi and Jennie Adler deny giving off unpleasant scent, say they were picked out by American Airlines because they’re Jewish; airline insists deplaning was due to odor
By ToI Staff
Left-wing protesters demonstrate against the release of Hagai Amir, accomplice to the murder of Yitzhak Rabin, outside the Amir family home in Ramat Gan on Friday (photo credit: Yehoshua Yosef /Flash90)
May 6, 2012, 1:05 pm
Senseless death and elections drama
The Hebrew dailies begin the new week by dwelling on a needless weekend killing and looking ahead to a summer of electioneering
By Ron Friedman
Hagai Amir, accomplice and brother of Rabin assassin Yigal Amir, in court in 2002. He was released today after sixteen years in jail. (photo credit: Flash90)
May 4, 2012, 4:14 pm
All together for the elections?
Are mergers looming on center-right and center-left?; the Harpaz affair might be criminal; and the papers all ask: ‘What stinks?’
By Yossi Nachemi
An Environmental Protection Ministry worker checks exhaust fumes in central Israel. (Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)
May 3, 2012, 1:31 pm
Foul odor over Tel Aviv still has officials stumped
Environmental Protection Ministry ‘almost certain’ that smell poses no danger to citizens
By ToI Staff
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