Urine Treason: Inbred Males Have No Chance
	Inbreeding is extremely harmful from a biological point of view. We all carry bad mutations, but they are hampered by another healthy gene variant in the sets made of two genes in our genome. In inbred animals, bad mutations have a huge chance to be transmitted to the offspring in a double set and to manifest. These effects manifest from weaker biological traits (physic, immunity, and so on) and severe genetic diseases to dead ev ... [read more >>]
	18 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Insects Have an Alien Type of Olfaction
	Many aliens in the SF movies are inspired from insects; or perhaps vertebrates represent strange aliens for them. A new study to be published in "Nature" by a team of researchers from Rockefeller University and the University of Tokyo adds another proof of the fact that insects have evolved very differently from other animals: their method of smelling is radically different from that of other animals. Insects are champs when ... [read more >>]
	14 April 2008, 04:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How to Hunt in the Dark Underwater
	Shrews have always been considered an ancestral model of mammals, the model of how primitive mammals must have looked during the dinosaur era. But a new research made on water shrews and published in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" reveals highly sophisticated methods for hunting underwater small fish and aquatic insects even in total darkness. Being so small (half the size of a house mouse), water shrew ... [read more >>]
	20 February 2008, 04:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Olfaction and Human Sex
	Euphemistically speaking, human olfaction is dull. In fact, olfaction barely has any role in our life, except in feeding. Is it so? Most mammals have on the top of their mouth, where the vomer bone is located, an olfactory formation called the Jacobson organ. This organ detects all the pheromones in the female's urine, which inform on her hormonal load and based on this, the male takes action or not. I'm sure that yo ... [read more >>]
	21 June 2007, 15:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia