Tag: scent

  • Nation & World

    Sense of scents

    A new study sheds light on the extent to which animals can make distinctions among scents.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Something doesn’t smell right

    Harvard scientists say they’re closer to unraveling one of the most basic questions in neuroscience — how the brain encodes likes and dislikes — with the discovery of the first receptors in any species evolved to detect cadaverine and putrescine, two of the chemical byproducts responsible for the distinctive — and to most creatures repulsive…

    5 minutes