The brain uses timed mechanism for odor perception. Encoding the chemical information of a smell is followed by detecting ...

NIMS has been developing chemical sensors as a key component of artificial olfaction technology (olfactory sensors), with the ...

NIMS has been developing chemical sensors as a key component of the artificial olfaction technology (olfactory sensors), with the aim of putting this ...

Bees obviously can’t use this skill on human level, but this progress could help scientists better grasp complex ...

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have shown for the first time that an insect—the bumblebee Bombus ...

Modern pain epidemiology and neuroscience teach us that pain and suffering are not medical cause and personal effect, but ...

Pumpkin spice. The cyclical announcement scent of fall invites feelings of coziness and snacking, but sometimes scent-scaping ...

Coriander's polarizing taste stems from a genetic variation in smell receptors, particularly sensitivity to aldehydes that can trigger a soapy percept ...

Researchers have captured unprecedented images of the mechanisms that allow mosquitoes, the world’s deadliest animal, to target our blood. It’s bound to happen at ...