Tag: Stephen Liberles

  • Nation & World

    Sweet feat

    New research by Harvard scientists shows how hummingbirds evolved a novel mechanism of taste.

    6 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