While science continues to enable us to harness the best of nature ... fine sense of smell. Initially specializing in floral notes, he was capable of identifying and developing molecules ...

Were you going to get sick? How Smells Work First, let’s see how we smell things. Smell is due to molecules of a particular substance that travel into your nose. These odor molecules contact a tissue ...

When it brings its tongue back in, the molecules contact special receptors and the snake senses the molecules as a smell. A fly tastes with its feet. At the end of a fly’s legs is a foot-like ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Stereochemical Theory of Odor ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 210 No. 2 (February 1964), p. 42 doi:10.1038 ...

Scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences published their findings in Nature Human Behaviour ... that allow us to ...

With just around 350 olfactory receptors, we can each smell a vast array of different individual molecules, called odorants (one model suggests there could be as many as 40 billion such smellable ...

The ink confuses the predator’s sense of smell, allowing the sea hare to escape. Nature is an evolutionary ... detect specific molecules in the environment. When a molecule binds to a receptor ...

We’re here in the park to find out about the human sense of smell. Let’s take a closer look at this fella, shall we? Now smells are actually made up of tiny odour molecules carried in the air.