Odor

Bulgarian State Railways (BDZ) revealed that train delays, caused by them in 2023, amounted to less than 2%, citing unregulated railway crossings as a primary cause. Vencislav Slavkov, manager of "Passenger Transport" at BDZ, emphasized the challenges posed by people and animals crossing railway lines without proper regulation.

Long-term effects of COVID-19 continue to challenge individuals, particularly those dealing with the persistent loss of smell. A breakthrough study, unveiled at the Radiological Society of North America's annual meeting, presents a promising approach to aid patients experiencing prolonged anosmia—a condition that deprives them of their sense of smell.

NEW YORK - Those familiar with New York City know it's a place where you will occasionally be confronted with the smell of marijuana. But when some of the world's most elite tennis players caught a whiff of weed during opening day of the US Open in Queens, an investigation was launched to find the possible source.

Police in Crete have opened a murder inquiry after staff at a trash sorting plant in Hania found a human head in a plastic bag traveling down the conveyor belt.

The head was initially thought to belong to a woman, on account of its long black hair, though an expert later confirmed that it belongs to man in his 30s or 40s, possibly of Asian descent.

A Turkish university has included an initiative program on "odor" into its syllabus, promising to give a world certificate to all graduates who want to work in the cosmetic and medicine business.

The name of the program is "Odor Academy," which was founded in 2019 by the Association of the Culture of Odor and Tourism as a private entrepreneur.

Thousands of women pushed pedals across the world as part of a global-scale campaign to give more visibility to women in society and to demand cycle-friendly cities.

He may never have pulled on a spacesuit or flown in a shuttle but that has not stopped Frenchman Michael Moisseeff from reaching for the stars.     

After years of exploring and reconstructing the scents of planet Earth, the 66-year-old "aroma sculptor" set himself a new goal - capturing the smell of the moon.     

Parents and even more so grandparents of students of Drapetsona's Second Primary School - at the junction of Georgiou Afara and Eleftherios Venizos Streets - may not be aware of methanethiol (methyl-merkaptani in Greek) but they can certainly recognise the odour in the air that they breathe.

The writer Georgi Gospodinov recently met with students from Sofia high schools in the Sofia City Art Gallery. He told them about his work, the literature and the life of Bulgarian classic writers. Finally, he answered questions from the students. "Dnevnik" published three of them.

Do you write only when you feel inspired or also when it is necessary?

A Danish company has released underwear that doesn't need washing for a long time by adopting technology used by NASA, Metro writes.

According to the manufacturer "Organic Baysik", the articles are "comfortable to wear, durable and kill unpleasant odors." This allows bikini and slips of the Silver 2.0 series to be unchanged for a very long time (17 days).