Maintaining a good sense of smell has knock-on benefits, including on our sense of taste DeanDrobot/Getty Images Beaming powerful radio waves directly into a person’s head seems to improve their sense of smell – at least temporarily. Ageing, trauma and some neurological conditions can all affect the olfactory nerve, which enables smell, reducing or even eliminating … Read more
A declining ability to detect scents is linked to conditions including Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. But restoring sensitivity to smell might not only reduce cognitive decline – studies also show it could even reverse it. Our reporters put the latest scent training kits to the test and explored the research behind our our most neglected sense. … Read more
I am not normally a fan of lotions and potions, but right now, four small vials sit on my bedside table. Every morning and every night, I open and sniff each one in turn, savouring the scents as they hit my nostrils. First, the sharp tang of lemon, followed by the abrasive chill of eucalyptus, … Read more
On the Shelf The Golden Hour: A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood By Matthew SpecktorEcco: 384 pages, $32If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.orgwhose fees support independent bookstores. Matthew Specktor is aware that his third book about Los Angeles is landing during a fraught … Read more
Dave Coulier was doing OK with his chemotherapy for Stage 3 cancer, it seems — until he got knocked out by a common cold. “I started to get pretty sick,” the actor-comedian tells Parade in a new interview. “I didn’t know that I had caught a virus. I was in bed for about 10 days … Read more
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting … Read more
It’s times like this I wish I lived in Hawaii. Or Arizona. Or American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, or on the Western lands of the Navajo nation. Those are the places under U.S. jurisdiction that do not observe the manifest folly of Daylight Saving Time, and will … Read more
Google is reportedly working on a revamped AI assistant for its upcoming Pixel 10 phone, designed to provide a more personalized experience based on how you use the device. Tech site Android Authority is reporting that Google aims to launch a smart assistant called Pixel Sense for its Pixel phone lineup, citing internal sources. The … Read more
Rebecca Black has lived the majority of her life online. Her name is one that’s hardly escaped the internet’s consciousness since she was 13 — or since she released her 2011 music video for “Friday,” which instantly went viral and became a YouTube classic. Since embarking on this extremely public path of self-discovery, she’s dabbled … Read more
Futility is one of the hardest things for cinema to convey. Storytelling is inherently geared to forward momentum and obstacles that can potentially be overcome. The ending doesn’t have to be a happy one, but viewers expect some sense of an arc, the feeling that where we started is different from where we ultimately landed. … Read more
