Ah, the whiff of a very old yolk
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It is one of the world&#39;s oldest questions: Why did the chicken cross the road? It might seem like a &#39;poultry&#39; subject to weigh on the minds of hundreds of scientists, but research published yesterday has brought us a little closer to the answer.
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Careful with that antique clock. It could pose a mercury hazard.
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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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It's not unusual for the students traveling cross-country aboard an old school bus to get a craving for fried chicken. Or popcorn. Or french fries. That's because their vehicle is powered by vegetable oil, and the used oil they put in their tank can carry the telltale odors of the restaurant it came from.
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Questions must be raised as to why it has taken such a long time to determine that former employees at a poultry farm in Kyoto Prefecture struck early this year by a massive outbreak of bird flu were infected with the virus during the incident.
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used to find food and mates. It&#39;s the stuff of literature; the scent of a scallop-shelled pastry dipped in lime-flower tea stirred the memories on which Marcel
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I shouldnât jinx it by writing about it, but thereâs something stirring there, like a thunderbird about to awaken. Over there, see?
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Tycho:  The memories of those who came of age in the eighties have become a kind of ghastly rummage sale, a tilled up cemetery where icons lay tilted over bones draped in ancient finery.  Pork caught a preview of Transformers on Monday, and he claims that it is not, in fact, heresy - but I don't know how calibrated our respective tastes are.  I was going to make a statement about how any constantly shifting image could entertain him, enthrall him, command him, until I realized that this viewing was late at night, in the twilight period we call Pork After Hours, when his medication wanes and his blood is frenzied by some dark moon.  For him to have focused on anything at any time after nine o'clock is actually high praise.
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A simple scratch-and-sniff test may help doctors identify patients with Alzheimer&#39;s disease, according to researchers. They found that patients with early Alzheimer&#39;s disease may be unable to smell certain
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Alzheimerâs seems to strike suddenly in old age, but scientists believe it begins long before symptoms occur.
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A re-assessed fossil from a Velociraptor dinosaur suggests the animal was probably covered in feathers.
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A new test has found that people who find it hard to identify the smell of strawberry, smoke, soap, menthol, clove, pineapple, natural gas, lilac, lemon and leather might be at the onset of Alzheimer&#39;s Disease.
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Sure, it's old and revered -- but it's also critically flawed. Consider ignoring it.
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Boomer Whiting took a second and let the moment soak in.
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Don't count on your nest egg before it hatches.
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It seems even a crusty old newshound like me can get burned. My item last week about a couple naming their baby âYahooâ turns out to be a hoax cooked up by a (now-unemployed) Romanian tabloid reporter. Reporters making things up just for a laugh? I am shocked, simply shocked.Â
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Three grains of pollen might help solve a 27-year-old murder mystery.