In a study, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, a team of French researchers at the University of Sorbonne Paris North demonstrated that ants have the ...

Ants don’t have a nose, but that doesn’t stop them from sniffing out cancer. Thanks to an abundance of olfactory receptors on their antennae, the insects have an incredible sense of smell ...

Jan. 25, 2023 -- New research points to the possibility that ants will someday help diagnose cancer in human beings. The insects have a highly refined sense of smell they use in all aspects of ...

The Adivasis don’t milch cows for milk, but leave it for their calves to grow stronger to help them in cultivating their ...

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Human patients would be less homogenous, which could influence their body odors and make it harder for ants to sniff out cancer. “The diet, sex and age of a patient can impact the odor of the ...

“Alien” ants outside their native range, such as the red fire ant, are inadvertently transported around the world by cargo and goods. Humans try to stop them; the warnings at airport border ...

Ants have an excellent sense of smell. And cancerous tumors in animals, including humans, produce chemical compounds that can make their way into urine samples. Some research has demonstrated that ...

“There’s these perfectly cleaned pathways that the ants make and maintain, and they carry bright-green leaves,” Chalmers told me recently. “And so you saw this ribbon, almost like a drawin ...

A pest in 2022 that wouldn’t seem to go away was the fire ant. I don’t know if my eye is just trained to see fire ants, but they seem to be everywhere. Fire ants do not like to be disturbed.

They all work essentially the same, by aerating the milk to make varying degrees of bubbles. Milks with higher fat content make a silkier froth; lower fat milks make for airier frothers.