• 动物会利用鼻子调整嗅觉

    12-10-31 Animals use their noses to focus their sense of smell, much the same way that humans focus their eyes, new research at the University of Chicago shows. A research team studying rats found that animals adjust their sense of smell through sniffing tec...

  • 基因疗法可用于治疗先天嗅觉丧失

    12-09-04 Scientists have restored the sense of smell in mice through gene therapy for the first time -- a hopeful sign for people who can't smell anything from birth or lose it due to disease. The achievement in curing congenital anosmia(嗅觉缺失症) -- the...

  • 蚊子通过嗅觉探测人的位置

    12-07-03 Now that the summer season is in full swing(活跃) , many of us will be hosting picnics and barbecues and socializing outside. Chances are, we'll also have some unwanted guests in the form of mosquitoes. Mosquitoes seem to have an uncanny(神秘的)...

  • 植物也有“嗅觉”

    12-03-06 People and animals are not the only ones who can smell. Plants are also able to perceive odors(气味) , but they process them in a very different way . While insects or mammals smell odors within a second of exposure, plants require much longer exp...

  • 发掘大脑的预测能力

    11-10-10 In the moments before you stop and smell the roses, it's likely your brain is already preparing your sensory system for that familiar floral(植物的) smell. New research from Northwestern Medicine offers strong evidence that the brain uses predicti...

  • 鸟类依靠嗅觉避免近亲繁殖

    11-09-23 Birds may have a more highly developed sense of smell than researchers previously thought, contend scholars who have found that penguins may use smell to determine if they are related to a potential mate. The research by the University of Chicago an...

  • Fragrance Forever

    11-06-29 The smell of wood, refreshingly sweet, greeted me even before I sat down at the round table. As if breathing along with the trees, I felt a simple, primitive(原始的,简单的) joy when admiring those furniture and home articles shaped and carved out...

  • 鸟类敏锐的嗅觉源自恐龙

    11-04-13 Pigeons may not instill(灌输,滴注) the same aura(光环,气味) of fear as a Tyrannosaurus rex, but they inherited their sense of smell from such prehistoric killers. Birds are known more for their flying abilities and their senses of vision and b...

  • 老鼠嗅觉神经在出生后发育完善

    11-03-13 For rodent pups, bonding with mom isn't hard-wired in the womb(子宫) . It develops over the first few weeks of life, which is achieved by their maturing sense of smell, possibly allowing these mammals a survival advantage by learning to identify m...

  • 可“嗅到光线”的老鼠有助于深入了解嗅觉

    10-10-18 Harvard University neurobiologists have created mice that can smell light, providing a potent(有效的,强有力的) new tool that could help researchers better understand the neural basis of olfaction(嗅觉) . The work, described this week in the jou...