{"id":366,"date":"2007-07-24T07:53:07","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T12:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=366"},"modified":"2007-07-24T08:03:52","modified_gmt":"2007-07-24T13:03:52","slug":"artificial-snot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=366","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Snot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bet <EM>that<\/EM> got your attention.<\/p>\n<p>Mucus greatly improves the nose&#8217;s ability to differentiate smells by helping to separate the scents chemically.  Researchers at Warwick University in the UK have developed an artifical mucus (a thin polymer coating) to enhance the effectiveness of odor-sensing &#8220;electronic noses.&#8221;  I&#8217;m finding this far, far funnier than I probably should.<P><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.newscientisttech.com\/channel\/tech\/dn11715-mucus-substitute-helps-artificial-nose-scent-success.html\">Link<\/A> <I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.newsoftheweird.com\/\">News of the Weird<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bet that got your attention. Mucus greatly improves the nose&#8217;s ability to differentiate smells by helping to separate the scents chemically. Researchers at Warwick University in the UK have developed an artifical mucus (a thin polymer coating) to enhance the effectiveness of odor-sensing &#8220;electronic noses.&#8221; I&#8217;m finding this far, far funnier than I probably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}