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white smell illustration
09.01.2013

Weizmann Institute scientists apply the principles of white color and white noise to create a white smell

white smell illustration
22.11.2012

Weizmann Institute scientists apply the principles of white color and white noise to create a white smell
 

Anat Arzi and Prof. Noam Sobel
18.11.2012

Subjects did not recall learning, but their sniffs showed they had learned the night’s lesson

sleep learning (Image: Thinkstock)
26.08.2012

Associations formed in the brains of sleeping volunteers remained intact when the subjects were awake

(l-r) Drs. Hadas Lipid and Sagit Shushan, Prof. Noam Sobel, and Drs. Anton Plotkin and Elad Schneidman. Smelling good
04.01.2012

The smell receptors in our nose are arranged according to the pleasantness scale.

Experimental apparatus for recording neural activity directly from the olfactory receptor neurons lining the olfactory epithelium in the nasal passages. Photo by Martin Kollar
26.09.2011

The smell receptors in our noses are arranged in logical patterns according to pleasantness

(l-r) Yaara Yeshurun, Prof. Noam Sobel, Dr. Sagit Shushan, Liron Rozenkrantz, Idan Frumin and Shani Gelstein. The smell of tears
04.04.2011

Though odorless, tears send chemical signals to those close enough to smell them

Weizmann Institute scientists discover: A Chemical Signal in Human Tears
06.01.2011

Weizmann scientists found that merely sniffing a woman’s tears – even when the crying woman is not present – reduces sexual...

New Invention at the Weizmann Institute Enables Severely Disabled People to Communicate and Steer a Wheelchair by Sniffing
27.07.2010
A unique device based on sniffing – inhaling and exhaling through the nose – might enable numerous...
Prof. Noam Sobel and Yaara Yeshurun.
01.05.2010
Why certain smells can evoke strong memories

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