There are nano-fibres in clothes, to make shirts wrinkle free and trousers stain-repellent, and even odour-eating socks made with nanotechnology.
The suggestion that disturbance can affect animals in refuges via routes other than visual contact, due to noise, vibrations or even odours, has implications for the conservation and management of a wide range of species that utilise refuges.
In particular, naive predators may not be able to tell the difference even when odour quantity and/or odour quality changes with herbivore density.
Attention-spans are shot, Manhattan threatens to become a war-zone and even the odour of actual physical books is offensive.
Even body odour will be banished: the authorities have encouraged locals to leave the city for the weekend.And, as at any coming-out party, young Lady Russia's conversations will be charming but inconsequential.
These include everything from a fingerprint, iris, retina, or outline of a hand, to ear shape, voice patterns, and even body odour.
"Tear gas convinces your body that you can't breathe," explains Sarit, "so the best thing to do is breathe in perfume, alcohol or even onion odour, which tricks your body into breathing properly again.
These signals do not fall into such relatively clear categories as the taste receptor system, and most organisms have the ability to distinguish between hundreds or even thousands of odours, including some odours that have very similar chemical structures.
Gas came over, and owing to the terrific odour even the powerful-smelling mustard gas could not be detected.
Democracy really cleaned those bitches up!") and even the faint odour of homophobia, as when Molly's mother urges that her sister take her "to one of those lesbo bars – they seem to like the beefy gals".
