from the hand-chiselled caves of the 11th-century ascetics — some still crosshatched with rickety wooden platforms — to the defunct hermitages secreted into clefts high up in the rock faces.

In the 10th century, Leo the Deacon recorded a journey to Cappadocia by Nikephoros Phokas; in his writings, he mentions that its inhabitants were called Troglodytes in view of the fact that they “went ...

The researchers’ olfactory tests — which involve participants peeling and then sniffing odors on a card — assess people’s ability to identify and remember odors. Albers and colleagues are ...

If you're a cat lover, you know that your furry friends can go absolutely wild for a sprinkling of catnip, the green herb that can be found in many cat toys or even grown in your own garden.

Laboratory of Molecular Morphogenesis, Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno 602 00, Czech Republic ...

Furthermore, we introduce a new olfactory-based emotion induction paradigm, which effectively mitigates the limitations of traditional visual and auditory stimuli by providing more stable and ...

In this detailed study, Cohen and Ben-Shaul characterized Accessory Olfactory Bulb (AOB) cell responses to various conspecific urine samples in female mice across the estrous cycle. The authors found ...

The olfactory system plays crucial roles in perceiving and interacting with their surroundings. Previous studies have deciphered basic odor perceptions, but how information processing in the olfactory ...