Grain News
Indianapolis—The 10th Fumigants & Pheromones International Conference and Workshop will be held May 16-18, 2012 at the University Place Conference Center in downtown Indianapolis.
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A hint of frog in the air: Macrolides are volatile pheromones from Madagascar frogs
Amphibians are at home in water, but can they also sense volatile compounds in the air? “Indeed they can,” reports Stefan Schulz. Working with colleague Miguel Vences and Ph.D. students Dennis Poth and Katharina Wollenberg at the University of Brunswick, he has found volatile pheromones in frogs from Madagascar. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, the scientists have now introduced various natural ...
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Love is the pits
Dirty t-shirt party finds underarm pheromones make for the best first dates They are invisible and occasionally irresistible.
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The Secret of Ant Transportation Networks
Just how ants create the highly efficient network of trails around their nests has never been fully understood. Now researchers think they've cracked it Among the most impressive transportation networks on the planet are the complex trails that ants create around their nests. These networks arise through the ants' exploration of their environment and end up channelling the distribution of food ...
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Sniffing smelly T-shirts: The new way to find a soulmate?
An Atlanta artist decides to try following her nose to love, creating a matchmaking party based on little-understood magnetic aromas
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