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Feb. 3, 2022 —Variations in the genes for the newly discovered scent receptors for musk and underarm odor add to a growing body of research suggesting that humans' sense of smell is gradually becoming less ...
June 29, 2021 —The stink of ammonia in urine, sweat, and rotting meat repels humans, but many insects find ammonia alluring. Now, researchers have figured out how the annoying insects smell it, a discovery that ...
Aug. 18, 2022 —When female mosquitoes are looking for a human to bite, they smell a unique cocktail of body odors that we emit into the air. These odors then stimulate receptors in the mosquitoes' antenna. ...
Mar. 15, 2021 —Lemurs can use their sense of smell to locate fruit hidden more than 50 feet away in the forest -- but only when the wind blows the fruit's aroma toward ...
Feb. 20, 2023 —Geckos can use their tongue to differentiate their own odor from that of other members of their species, as researchers have shown in a new experimental study. The findings show that geckos are able ...
Oct. 8, 2020 —Some people carry a mutation in a particular gene that makes the smell of fish less intense. The study, which is the largest genome-wide association study (GWAS) of olfactory genes in humans ...
Sep. 9, 2020 —狗不挑剔而著称their food, eating the same kibble day after day with relish. However, owners of pampered pooches want their pets to have the best possible culinary ...
Jan. 10, 2022 —Researchers studying locusts have found that the presence of smell can be determined by simply adding and subtracting the presence of certain ...
Mar. 16, 2022 —In what they call surprise findings, scientists report that -- unlike fruit flies -- mosquitoes' odor sensing nerve cells shut down when those cells are forced to produce odor-related proteins, ...
Feb. 8, 2022 —For the first time, researchers have found a cost-effective and convenient way to apply a silver-based antimicrobial clear coating to new or existing textiles. Their method uses polyphenols, commonly ...