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It is capable of constructing a high-fidelity sound signal from single instruments playing in groups

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.

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.     

Residents of Turkey's biggest city, Istanbul, suffer some of the worst hearing loss in the world due to excessive amounts of noise, according to data from the Worldwide Hearing Index, which was prepared for the World Hearing Day on March 3.

The city was the fifth worst city out of 50 for hearing loss, according to the Combined Hearing Loss Index, which is a combined result of the average hearing loss and the noise pollution indices.

The index was prepared by a German scientific research company, Mimi. 

From the typical shouts of the simit sellers perched on their corners to the nostalgic carriages of the Prince's Islands off Istanbul's Marmara coast, Koç University's Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) is offering its visitors a chance to explore the everyday sounds of Istanbul often lost to the listener through repetition or reflexive noise reduction.

American model, Sarah McDaniel, has become an internet sensation at the age of 20 due to the fact that her eyes are two distinctly different colors. One blue eye and one yellow-brown, her unique look has driven internet users wild due to her… imperfections!

Scientists have discovered that the Dictyophora mushroom species that grows on dried lava in Hawaii gives women spontaneous orgasms when they sniff it. The mushrooms aphrodisiac powers were first studied in 2001 by John Halliday and Noah Soule who published an article in IFL Science.

I took this picture the other day when I missed the company shuttle and was trying to make my way to the office on a late morning, after rush hour. 

The fourth-generation grandchild of Abdülhamid has teamed up with a scent expert and sociologist to conduct archival research that is revealing interesting personal details about the Ottoman sultans.