evidenced by the fact that it takes less than a hundred milliseconds for someone to decide if an odor is unpleasant or pleasant, versus seconds to determine if, for example, an odor is sweet or ...

You wouldn't microwave fish around your worst enemy—the smell lingers both in kitchen and memory. It is one few of us like, ...

It's a very architectural rock, but it could be used as a visual example of why sinkholes form ... But there's no denying they smell great. In our yard their fragrance is joined by that of Dawn ...

Such a mechanism could help protect not only flies, but also we as humans to recognize and avoid, for example, contaminated food that emits pleasant as well as bad odors. In the future ...

It often makes things smell bad or even disgusting. For example, when you sniff a banana, instead of a fruity and pleasant aroma, it might smell like rotting flesh. You get parosmia when smell ...

Migratory locust (Locusta migratoria) feeding: Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology want to understand how odor perception and processing affects the dangerous swarming ...

To achieve this, they first asked a group of native Israelis to rate the pleasantness of a selection of odors according to a 30-point scale ranging from “very pleasant” to “very unpleasant.” ...

For example, the coriander plant—also known as cilantro—has leaves that some people perceive as “soapy,” while for others they smell pleasant. These discrepancies can also explain how we ...

evidenced by the fact that it takes less than a hundred milliseconds for someone to decide if an odor is unpleasant or pleasant, versus seconds to determine if, for example, an odor is sweet or ...