Roadsides Benefit From Waste, UF Researchers Say
...it's dumped from trucks, but once it's spread, the odor dissipates quickly and no one has complained. In field studies along an interstate in Broward County and a four-lane in Hernando County, the researchers are studying how the organic material aids the establishment of new grass. Along two-lanes near S...Study Sheds Light On Behavior Of Middle-Age 'Undertaker' Bees
... 13 days,"Trumbo said. Undertakers respond to the odor of the dead, locating the bodies andcarrying them out of the hive for 50 to 100 meters before dropping them. The researchers also monitored how swiftly undertakers worked. "We didn't find any evidence for learning for this particular task,"Trumbo ......versity for the first time havelinked a particular odor with the proteins in the human nose that detect it... a cascade ofreactions that create a perception of odor in the brain. "I believe this experiment will prove to be a Rosetta stone forolfaction, in t......ton's mint oil were discounted because of a unique odor in the mint. Pacific Northwest staff identified the source of the odor--hydrogen sulfide--andcame up with an easy method to remove it. Mid 1970s The section continued to build on past successes and expand into new areas, suchas bioprocessing (ferm...Adults Need To Increase Intake Of Folate; Some Women Should Take More
...ypotension, or low blood pressure, and afishy body odor in some people. Because the committee was unable to identify studies conducted on the adverseeffects of taking large doses of many of the B vitamins, it did not set upperlimits for thiamin, riboflavin, vitamin B12, pantothenic acid, and biotin. Due...Composting Livestock Waste Provides Benefits
... lagoons to handle manure, but these have a strong odor and can become clogged with the manure solids. "It just turns to a big sludge pit," Hawkins says. Even if the lagoon doesn't become filled with solids, it still requires the producer to stir it and to periodically pump it out, he says. According to H...USDA Researchers Prepare A New Trap For The Potato Beetle
...that the potato beetle isstrongly attracted to the odor released by potato plants that have been chewedby caterpillars and carry the saliva of the larvae. Building on workpreviously conducted at the USDA, in which researchers identified andsynthesized the chemicals in the saliva, ARS scientists are deve...Banking On Safer Drinking Water
...cus in the 1970s wasmainly to get rid of taste and odor problems and to removehazardous materials like pesticides and hydrocarbons," Bouwersays. "But there has been limited recent work to look at how itaffects the pathogens and by-products of disinfection. We will bedoing work that is more relevant to tod...Boats A Source Of MTBE In Water
... times exceeded anticipated standards fortaste and odor in drinking water, they did not exceed the 14 parts per billionpublic health goal, said Reuter. Lake Donner, a popular resort area located in the Sierra Nevada mountain rangein northeastern California, provides drinking water to several locations,inc...Garlic Perfumes Poultry Houses
... percent of their diet in garlicpowder to mask the odor of the waste," said Glenn Birrenkott, Clemsonanima...ee weeks for thegarlic to reduce the poultry house odor compared to the odor from a controlgroup of laying hens. The researchers have already conducted tast...New Technology Turns French Fry Oil Into Diesel Fuel
...d aromatic compounds lead to the familiar, caustic odor of burnedpetrodiesel fuel. Biodiesel has a different, yet probably more familiar odorwhen it burns. It smells like fried chicken. In fact, it smells so much like fried chicken that when the National ParkService considered using biodiesel fuel for tou...Tipsheet: Environmental Story Ideas
...m water at Mount Horeb's Stewart Lake. Koegel says odor is removed in the separation process. But whether the publicever catches wind of the material might depend on the wood market, whereshortages in wood and paper pulp are predicted. "People should know the research is preliminary," adds Koegel. "Otherw...Sandia, University Of Montana Researchers Try Training Bees To Find Buried Landmines
...chemicals. If bees can be trained to associate the odor ofexplosives (such as TNT) with food (sugar syrup, forinstance), says Bromenshenk, the bees may spend more timenear plants and surface soils contaminated with TNT,increasing the odds that they would bring back TNT residuesfrom an area that contains b...Researchers Identify Molecule That May Be Key In Pheromone Processing
...entified by Dulac are notchemically related to the odor receptors found in the MOE. With this evidence ofdifferent mechanisms for the detection of odors and pheromones, interest indiscovering how pheromones transmit their signals has been intense. The MGH/Harvard team has identified a molecule called TRP...Microbes work magic on hazardous air pollutants
...pounds (VOCs),hazardous air pollutants (HAPs), and odor causing chemicals. Biotricklingfilters offer more cost-effective treatmentoptions than standard biofilters for compounds with low-water solubilities orslow degradation rates. The technologyalso is an effective treatment option for many biodegradable ...Mosquitoes have discriminating tastes, UF researchers find
...d heat sensing to make aselection. "Mosquitoes use odor to sort attractive people from the unattractive people tofind those that are most tasty," said Butler, with UF's Institute of Food andAgricultural Science. "They are looking for the highest rates of humanattractants." What are those attractants? That...Neurons produced during adulthood react to stimuli
..., the scent of anaggressive male, and a non-social odor such as peppermint....Ground-penetrating radar detects hard-to-find hazardous waste
...to River. "There was a slight odor of creosote in the air, but it was nothing you'd really notice," said Holt. The students surveyed a football-field sized portion of the property with a commercially available GPR device, fi...Bitter taste receptors identified
...nize a wide range of odors and to discriminate one odor from another an essential ability if one is to avoid such inappropriate responses as mistaking a mate for a snack. The organization of the olfactory system reflects this need, with each olfactory neuron expressing only one of the 1,000 or so olfacto......, this is smell blindness, or insensitivity to the odor of a chemical or group of chemicals in people with...ed the isobutryic acid had a "very pleasant fruity odor - like apples." Experiments later revealed that the wayward individuals had a specific anosmia to i...