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A person’s smell decides his likeability

A person’s smell decides his likeabilityWashington, Dec 7: Animals aren’t the only one who use their sense of smell to sniff out people they like, for humans also do so.

The finding is based on a study led by Wen Li, a post-doctoral fellow in the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Centre at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine, which stated that minute amounts of odours elicited salient psychological and physiological changes, which suggests that humans get more information from barely perceptible scents.

“We evaluate people every day and make judgments about who we like or don’t like, ” said Li.

Pak origin credit card fraud king exposed in US

Washington, Dec 7: A Pakistani of American origin is in big trouble after his son informed the police that his father carried credit cards that did not bear his name.

Detection of extra solar planet's atmosphere might help in finding extraterrestrial life

Extra Solar PlanetWashington, Dec 7: Astronomers have made the first ground-based

Now an unmanned seaplane inspired by 'flying fish' that takes off and lands on its own

Washington, Dec 7: Engineers have developed an unmanned seaplane with a 7-foot wingspan, inspired by flying fish.

China bans screening of American films for three months

Washington, Dec.6: Disagreements with U.S.

New findings shed light on missing chemicals from earth's mantle

Washington, Dec 6: New observations by geophysicists might shed light on the age-old mystery of missing chemicals from the Earth's mantle.

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