Why Does Airplane Food Taste So Bad?

Image by Wikipedia People universally complain about how bad airplane food is... However, the reason may surprise you in that it's not t...

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Diagnosing autism: not to be sniffed at

All rights to Rozenkrantz et al (2015) ' Sniffing could provide autism test ' went the BBC headline as the work of Liron Rozenkrantz...

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Synaesthesia prevalent in autism?

The BBC headline ' Study links synaesthesia to autism ' recently caught my eye (and nose!) discussing the paper by Baron-Cohen and c...

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I smell a rat! (but how do I know it's a rat?)

There's a very fine review in the current issue of Nature Neuroscience , by Zou et al.; "How the olfactory bulb got its glomeruli: ...

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