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Ghost Dance

Is bigger always better?

Nov 3 • 

Avery Gilbert

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October 2025

Ghosts of the Fragrance Industry

Its recent ancestors are but a haunting memory

Oct 28 • 

Avery Gilbert

7

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Still here

Just coming up for air

Oct 24 • 

Avery Gilbert

2

7

Body Odor as Biometric ID?

Creepy chemistry to serve the all-knowing state

Oct 14 • 

Avery Gilbert

1

Breaking the Olfactory Code

Some biological realism plus lots of CPU time

Oct 7 • 

Avery Gilbert

5

September 2025

Brain Electrodes and Phantom Smells

Medical insights or stray voltage?

Sep 30 • 

Avery Gilbert

2

Olfactory Obsessions

When people are plagued by phantom BO

Sep 22 • 

Avery Gilbert

5

Scents to Snooze by

Can you smell your way to better sleep?

Sep 15 • 

Avery Gilbert

4

Parsing the Language of Smell

A new PhD tackles how we describe odors

Sep 7 • 

Avery Gilbert

5

1

August 2025

Beaming Radio into the Nose

Seoul music at 2.45 GHz

Aug 31 • 

Avery Gilbert

3

Olfactory Loss and Alzheimer’s Disease

Commercialized smell testing could pay off big time.

Aug 24 • 

Avery Gilbert

4

OUT: Human Pheromones, IN: Whole Body Odor

Smell scientists get their noses out of the armpit

Aug 16 • 

Avery Gilbert

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