Ants have evolved an acute sense of smell, which requires each sensory neuron to choose one scent receptor out of hundreds. In a new study published in Nature, researchers at New York University have ...

So a scifi/fantasy author I follow on facebook copy/shared how there was some online realization that some people could smell ants. Then they commented how they and their daughter could smell ants, ...

Some people say they can smell insects, while others don't detect any smell from them at all. And even those who do smell bugs often disagree on what a given type of insect smells like. If you don't ...

Ted Schultz, research entomologist at Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, describes how ants use their incredible sense of smell along with their ability to produce pheromones to ...

Scientists find ‘dramatic change’ in ant nests due to air pollution - Ants recognise nestmates by comparing their smell to ...