It's not called "animal attraction" for nothing. Creatures great and small (humans included) secrete pheromones, chemical substances that oh-so-subtly stimulate whoever happens to catch a whiff ...

Spiders have always lived alongside humans, so it's surprising how much we still don't know about them. One long-standing mystery was related to how spiders detect smells. Now, our latest research has ...

As our understanding of these chemical signals continues to evolve, so does our appreciation of their role in guiding human behavior and interactions. Recognizing the impact of pheromones on ...

Subtle chemical signals, or pheromones, have long been known to draw pairs together within the same species, and for a specific reason. In mice, for example, experiments showed that pheromones ...

Mamiko Ozaki, an outside collaborator with the Nara Women’s University Institute of Yamato Area and Kii Peninsula, has been studying the working mechanisms of ant pheromones, which are chemical ...

In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we demonstrated that male spiders use olfactory ...