Purdue students sniff manure for science
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Purdue University students are making some extra cash through a project that might turn some of their classmates' stomachs Â by sniffing livestock excrement. Students earn $30 per session as they take whiffs of a variety of smells collected from barns filled with hogs, cows and chickens for odor research being conducted by Albert Heber, a Purdue professor of agricultural and biological engineering.
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Lycoming County officials and scientists are testing technology they hope will turn organic waste into profitable byproducts.
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Hundreds of students on the University of Michigan campus are part of a research study that could change the way the world looks at influenza.
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THURSDAY, Sept. 23 (HealthDayNews) -- British researchers say they've taught dogs to sniff out the scent of bladder cancer in urine, a feat that might someday lead to better diagnostic technology.
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For more than two decades, New York scientist Richard Axel and colleague Linda B. Buck have shared a singular pursuit: to understand how the brain perceives the world&#39;s myriad of smells - from the scent of roses to the scent of refuse.
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By Tim Thornton tim.thornton@roanoke.com 381-1669  Biodiesel in buses. Grass on roofs. Organic food in cafeterias. Renewable electricity in the wall sockets.  America's colleges are turning greener faster than a chemically  fertilized lawn in spring.
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ritish researchers have trained dogs to detect bladder cancer by sniffing human urine, opening up the possibility that dogs - or electronic noses modeled on their snouts - may one day be used to detect the disease.
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Medical Research Council (MRC) scientists have ended lengthy scientific speculation by confirming that chickens have an acute sense of smell.
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A new spectrometer lets scientists learn more about the planet's chemistry.
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1st LD: Astronauts on space station notice foul odor    WASHINGTON, Sept.
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Fools share their thoughts on ethanol and energy.
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Chemists from Bristol University tackle the sticky problem of discarded chewing gum.
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Going Green: One professor is rallying college kids to pay attention to global warming. After all, it's their world we're messing with
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By Rob Varnon, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport  Sep. 7--It's no longer just hemp-clad college students preaching the need  for humanity to recycle more and reduce consumption of raw materials.
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A new test that produced methane under conditions mimicking the deep interiors of Earth and Mars lends support to an idea that the gas could theoretically support unseen colonies of microbes on both worlds. And the study hints at the possibility of a potential vast supply of petroleum products.
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DUVANNY YAR, Russia  - Sergei Zimov bends down, picks up a handful of treacly mud and holds it up to his nose. It smells like a cow pat, but he knows better.
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Stern and unsmiling, the professorial portraits lining the hallways of the University of Missouri-Rolla's chemical engineering department project a singular message: science is serious stuff. The graybeards in those photos would likely be aghast at the scene unfolding inside a nearby Schenk Hall classroom.