Dogs have a truly astonishing sense of smell that goes far beyond anything we could imagine. From picking up the scent of a potential mate miles away to uncovering an explosive, a dog's nose is always ...

Joy Milne inherited a condition known as ‘hyperosmia’ from her grandmother and has put her incredible sense of smell to good use - Saesha Blue Ward Joy Milne’s life has changed immeasurably since the ...

In the throes of the pandemic, people started noticing something odd: an uptick of negative reviews of scented candles, claiming they had no fragrance. The trend line of the bad reviews coincided with ...

TikTokkers and others on social media call it nose blindness — when you smell an odor so often that you lose the ability to smell it at all, including your own breath in certain cases. It’s a ...

The Kunstpalast museum in Düsseldorf is seeking to harness one of them: our sense of smell. The exhibition, titled The Secret ...

Winter often brings along the common cold, and one of its most irritating symptoms is a blocked nose. When mucus builds up ...

You’ve probably walked into someone else’s home and noticed the lingering scents of last night’s salmon dinner, pet odor, musty bedrooms or slightly mildewy bathrooms. But why is it so hard to tell if ...

Using a scratch-and-sniff test, researchers discovered that smell loss after COVID-19 may linger for more than two years.

Our sense of smell profoundly influences taste, with the brain merging olfactory and gustatory signals to create flavour.

“Our study suggests that in early Alzheimer’s disease, changes occur in the nerve fibers linking the locus coeruleus to the ...

Think of that first cup of coffee in the morning. Black liquid, with a bit of cream—or milk and sugar, if you prefer. Hot, steaming, wafting toward you. Most of us need that first cup. You’re probably ...