Pheromones are in the air — perhaps more than usual. Coined by Peter Karlson and Martin Lüscher in 1959, “pheromones” refers to a class of naturally secreted chemicals said to emit olfactive signals ...

Late one night, I was flipping through television stations in a somewhat futile effort to find something interesting (for that, read “non-reality”) to watch, when I came across a police drama and ...