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Fruit flies also know 'think' before acting
Fruit flies 'think' before they act, a study conducted by scientists from the Center for Neural Circuits and Behavior at Oxford University said.
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Biology
From chaos to order: How to find food?
Ant species have a strategic strategy to solve complex problems, which can be widely applied as optimization techniques.
Biology
Strange world of orchids
Although it has been dubbed the elegantly beautiful flower, some flowers have strange shapes like monkey faces or stench to attract insects.
Biology
Mosquitoes know how to choose people to burn
Blood or body odor may be the main reason why someone often gets bitten by mosquitoes than others.
Biology
Genetically modified so that mosquitoes can't smell people
American scientists at Rocckefeller University have devised a way to transform mosquito genes, neutralizing their sense of smell for humans, making them not looking for…
Biology
Strange: Poisonous mosquitoes addicted to rotten foot odor
Experiments carried out in the laboratory showed that malaria-carrying mosquitoes were three times more excited with the smell of dirty socks than those of non-pathogeni…
Biology
Remember the smell of the enemy
The ant nests, one of the oldest and most effective social structures, can together form an integrated memory of their opponents. Experts at the University of Melbourne…
Biology
Molecular signals from insect antennas
Insects have a very keen sense of smell. With extremely low odor molecules in the air, it is enough for them to be identified by neurons on the antennas.
Biology
Create mice that smell light
Among the characteristics of living things and humans, feeling the world around you with the sense of smell is still the most mysterious thing.
Biology
Ants determine direction by smell
Thanks to the ability to sense many smells at once, a desert ant in Tusinia uses odor information to create an image of the surrounding environment.
Biology
'Death scent' helps ants realize dead bodies
When an ant dies, other members will quickly bury it to prevent the risk of spreading the disease.
Biology
Desert ants smell the way back to the nest
When lost in the desert, people often hang around in a deadlock circle. This prompted scientists to ask how the desert living organisms could find their way without a ma…
Biology
Insects evolved a completely different tactic to sniff
In the work published in the April 13 online edition of Nature, researchers at Rockefeller University and Tokyo University revealed that insects have adopted a fundament…
Biology
Orchid tree has rotten foot odor
A special smelling flower that grows only in the US Yosemite National Park, and was first found in 1923, was declared a new orchid species. Nh