Research reveals that for C. elegans worms, the presence of dead members of their species has profound behavioral and physiological effects, leading them to more quickly reproduce and shortening their ...

Mice use scent cues to detect social rank without physical confrontation. Disrupting chemosensory systems impairs rank ...

Our senses shape our understanding of the world, but none are quite as evocative as the sense of smell. It’s remarkable how ...

The researchers found that seeing food had no effect on the hungry animals’ exploratory behavior, whereas mice exposed to olfactory stimulation spent the most time exploring the tube that emitted the ...

Think about the scent of fresh lavender or an evergreen forest; these might bring you peace or remind you of something unpleasant. Either way, you don't have control over how they affect you.

It’s the same with soothing scents – they have a cocooning effect that relaxes us. When scent enters the nose, it travels through the cranial nerves straight to the olfactory bulb which helps ...

But the smell of tears, researchers say, has a different effect. “You might think—we did—that [smelling] tears might create empathy,” says Noam Sobel, a neurobiologist at the Weizmann ...

PETALING JAYA: One can never underestimate the power of smell, especially when it comes to selling products. As a form of sensory marketing targeted at the olfactory senses, scent marketing ...

The principle is simple: The user asks ChatGPT (in the version that includes image creation) to draw, for example, a Neapolitan pizza, and adds the request, “Use the smell effect.” The images ...