Study: Decreased Ability to Identify Smells Predict Death in Older People

A recent study suggests a relationship between our ability to identify various smells and the time we have before we die. Today on our One on One Segment, we’ll talk with the lead author of the study about the research and how losing the sense of smell can be a forecaster of mortality. And... Carol Pearson takes us to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia and she tells us what they are doing to stop the spread of the deadly outbreak of Ebola in West Africa. The 2014 Nobel Prizes were announced this past week. We’ll tell you who won the prestigious prize in the fields of Physiology or Medicine, Physics and Chemistry. After NASA's Spirit and Curiosity Mars Rovers had some tough times navigating through the sands of the Red Planet, scientists are looking to nature to find a solution to this problem. Life-like artificial limbs are on the way. Two different groups of scientists have developed prosthetic devices that behave and can feel just like real arms and hands. These stories and more are coming up for you on today's edition of VOA's science, health and technology magazine, "Science World."