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Scent of Danger: Is 'New-Car Smell' Responsible for Accident?

Car crashes can be blamed on any number of factors, from mechanical malfunction to driver error. But what about new-car smell? An accident expert investigating a hit-and-run in Edwards, Colo., says a collision between a driver and a bicyclist may have been caused, in part, by the fresh scent inside a month-old 2010...

Haunted House? 'Ghost Buster Gals' at Your Service

(Oct. 30) -- If there's something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? Ghostbusters! Or maybe two ladies known as "The Ghost Buster Gals." Since 2001, Washington state friends Ronnie Rennae Foster and Laura Lee Mistycah have been in business as The Ghost Buster Gals, offering their expert "fast, friendly...

Background on odor

An odor or odour (commonly referred to as a smell) is caused by one or more volatilized chemical compounds, generally at a very low concentration, that humans or other animals perceive by the sense of olfaction.

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