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A new study suggests that orchids exploit male bees for their own purposes by imitating the scent of bee females. This little trick played by orchids relies on the instinctive urge of male bees to mate when detecting the scent of a female insect. As the male falls in the trap set by the orchid, its attempt to procrea... |
27 May 2008
07:40 GMT |
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It has now become clear that Jerry was a regular mouse-Casanova because of Tom. The scent of a cat may be the dread of any mouse, but it may also function like a sexual booster for these small rodents, as revealed by a new research published in the Journal of Ethology. The cat smell turns male mice into aggressive Do... |
12 May 2008
03:29 GMT |
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These are the "Chip and Dales" of the crab world: the best performers of erotic dances in the world of the crustaceans. And their dances are extremely efficient, as they send pheromones to lure far-away females out of their dens, as found by a new research published in the "Journal of Experimental Biology." It appear... |
9 April 2008
03:56 GMT |
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It was a breakthrough when, in September 2007, a research made at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., and The Rockefeller University in New York City detected a gene encoding for one odor receptor (of over 400 smell receptors in humans) thought to be a pheromone perceiver.The pheromone androstenone (a der... |
18 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Ants are really vicious. They bite, sting and splash with formic acid, which is quite toxic. Yet the colony fed by thousands of hard-working laborers represents an irresistible target for parasites. A new Danish research published in the Science journal and carried on the Myrmica rubra ant species has revealed cases ... |
4 January 2008
03:29 GMT |
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The brain is our main sexual organ. It controls everything: from sex drive and pleasure to sexual orientation. Now a team at the University of Utah has even managed to induce homosexuality! Not in humans, but in nematode worms. "They look like girls, but act and think like boys. The [same-sex attraction] behavior is... |
26 October 2007
07:09 GMT |
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An ant colony contains one or several fertile females called queens, which lay eggs and sterile workers, which are also females. In northern areas, during spring, from a few eggs in 35-45 days sexual flying individuals are formed, males and females. The flying individuals go out on a warm wet day. They mate, but only... |
25 October 2007
15:11 GMT |
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Pheromones have proven tricky in some cases. They allowed farmers to grow ecological apples and pears for decades. The farmers have to place in their orchards hundreds of plastic dispensers spreading a sex pheromone, which attracts and disrupts codling moth mating. A new research made at the Agricultural Research Ser... |
22 October 2007
06:14 GMT |
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Amid the fierce debate if humans do synthesize and use pheromones or not, a new research made at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., and The Rockefeller University in New York City could have detected a gene encoding for one odor receptor (of over 400 smell receptors in humans) believed to be a pheromone ... |
24 September 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Sexual attractiveness is much more than a look. Even if 80 % of the information we receive about our partner is visual, there is more. Researches have shown that women who look more attractive also smell better. At least at certain periods of the month, while symmetrical men, found very attractive by women, do smell ... |
8 September 2007
07:06 GMT |
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Insecticides turn you impotent rather than rousing you, but not the same occurs with the crested auklets and their home made bug killing chemicals. These arctic sea birds have been found to produce citrus-scented pheromones that repel ticks while at the same time attracting mates. This finding explains the long-stand... |
22 August 2007
06:00 GMT |
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For years, researchers intensely sought for the Holly Grail of sexuality: what makes a man behave like a man and a woman like a woman (or if you want, a gay like a woman and a lesbian like a man). They have sliced the brain in all the possible variants and …no striking results. No dramatic differences between male an... |
6 August 2007
14:06 GMT |
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A little bit of masculine scent loaded with sexual pheromones is the recipe to make a female drop into a man's lap. Moreover, male pheromones not only change a female's brain's activity, but also its size! At least in mice, as recently discovered by scientists. The growth of their brain apparently made... |
3 July 2007
13:51 GMT |
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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 ... |
21 June 2007
15:11 GMT |
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We, humans, are obsessed with pheromones, even if they do not influence much the behavior in our species. But we still dream of a love elixir that would offer us a lot of sex. In other mammals and many insects, this could be the case. Moth pheromones guide males towards the females even on the darkest nights. Pheromo... |
21 June 2007
05:07 GMT |
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Frogs croak, lions roar, peacocks show their tails, but chemical signals for attracting a mate are much more employed. In fact, chemical signaling can be employed also for alarm, communicating food availability, defending territory. But do humans use the chemical signals? Pheromones are chemicals which, when emitted ... |
25 April 2007
10:33 GMT |
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