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Smelling a potential new mate could impact how long an animal lives and its ability to reproduce, according to a new study.Scientists found that simply exposing male mice to the scent of unknown females during middle to old age decreased the number of litters they could sire later in life. If these female-odor-sniffing males were allowed to mate, they were also likelier to die earlier than males who didn't smell outsider females before mating.The researchers from New Zealand and Australia say their study demonstrates…

One of the missing pieces of puzzle for VR is scent, but at CES 2024 in Las Vegas, Japanese startup Aromajoin showed off a wearable that may be up to the task. Simply dubbed Aroma Shooter Wearable, this neckband houses six replaceable scent cartridges, and it's controlled by a mobile device or PC over Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or USB. The product is still in its early days, and the Kyoto-based company is targeting developers and business clients, who can pick from a library of "hundreds" of scents — or even custom scents from,…

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Researchers have shown that returning foragers of buff-tailed bumblebees use their own passively laid out scent marks, as well as visual information from landmarks, to find their way back to the nest entrance. These results highlight the importance of both vision and odor for guiding the navigation of bumblebees.Get Ready For Another Summer of Invasive Lanternflies | Extreme EarthPut yourself in the exoskeleton of a bumblebee for a moment: your world would be a riot of colors and scents, both essential to guide your search…

Quirks and Quarks16:33Scientists explore what makes you attractive — to mosquitoesIt's the million-dollar question that comes around every summer: What's the best way to keep bloodsucking mosquitoes away? The results from two new studies are getting us closer to that answer in ways that better reflect what happens in natural settings. It turns out that what distinguishes a mosquito magnet from a repellent is their personal scent signature — a mix of chemicals influenced by exercise, the cosmetic products we use and maybe…

If there’s one thing writers love to write about, it’s being a writer. In this practice – where writing about what you know is taken to the extreme – there’s a particular subset in which writing is treated as a fragile thing, a gift to the writer that must be approached with care to stop the muse being frightened off. Leo Tolstoy, when asked by an anxious editor what was happening with the book he had paid such a handsome advance for, replied: “Anna Karenina has left. I am waiting for her to return.”For every Tolstoy,…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJude Law has shared that he wore an “awful” scent of “blood, faecal matter and sweat” to authentically portray Henry VIII in his newest movie Firebrand. The 50-year-old British actor stars as the former King of England, who married six times, in director Karim Aïnouz’s historical drama. “I read several interesting accounts that you could smell Henry three rooms away. His leg was…

House mice may look cute, but they’re little monsters when it comes to crops. The rodents destroy 70 million tons of rice, wheat, and maize each year by devouring and infesting stored grain. They also dig up and eat the seeds farmers have planted. Humans have been locked in a battle with these pests for millennia, using everything from cats to poisons. A new study may have found a better—and more humane—alternative: camouflaging fields with a scent that makes the…

Researchers created a giant sniffing arena for mosquitoes, all in hopes of understanding why they’re so drawn to us. Among other things, they found that human body odor was more alluring to the insects than the mere presence of carbon dioxide, a chemical that we exhale.Get Ready For Another Summer of Invasive Lanternflies | Extreme EarthPlenty of research has tried to figure out how female bloodsucking mosquitoes find and choose the humans they feed on. But according to study author Conor McMeniman, these studies often…

In the dead of night, 200 bloodthirsty creatures make their way through a tented mesh arena the size of an ice rink. Scientists study them from afar, pumping in air scented with the aroma of human prey. They’re hoping to reveal just what triggers these deadly predators. This isn’t the setup for an upcoming zombie movie. “It’s the world’s largest multichoice smell test for mosquitoes”—a giant experiment to figure out why the deadly insects prefer some people over…