Smell

Making sense of scents.

Duke lab built Neanderthal and Denisovan smell receptors and tested them in a dish.

A new study provides new insights into the mystery of scent, where scientists describe for the first time how relationships between different odors are encoded in the olfactory cortex, the region of brain responsible for processing smell.

Understanding how to obtain accurate numbers of olfactory receptor counts in the mammalian genome is major aspect to understanding the sense of smell.

The smell is a social and social phenomenon — people bond over smell and associate odors perceived with specific memories. In certain cultures, the...

Scientists at the University of Otago have made a groundbreaking revelation by identifying an association between smell and obesity. The study suggests that there...

We usually are more conscious about our personal hygiene. Deodorant is one of the things most of us use every day. We everyone knows...