Arianna Khmelniuk laid out hundreds of small bottles with labels like “galaxolide ipm 10%” and “cedarwood virginia eden 10%” on an ochre table in her Richmond lab. She selected one and passed it to ...

Our Future Chronicles column explores an imagined history of inventions yet to come – this time how, by the mid-21st century, ...

Olfactory tests may be a tool to identify dementia in its initial stages — when interventions are most beneficial, ...

Albers and colleagues are interested in whether olfactory dysfunction — the sometimes-subtle loss of sense of smell — can ...

Joy Milne told Sky's The UK Tonight With Sarah-Jane Mee about how her rare condition of hyperosmia, an incredibly sensitive sense of smell, helped her sniff out the disease in her late husband ...

Researchers developed olfactory tests -- in which participants sniff odor labels that have been placed on a card -- to assess people's ability to discriminate, identify and remember odors. They found ...

When it comes to early detection of cognitive impairment, a new study suggests that the nose knows. Researchers from Mass General Brigham have developed olfactory tests—in which participants sniff ...

While dogs have an incredibly strong sense of smell, there is no evidence that they can smell oxytocin, the "love hormone." However, dogs are highly attuned to human emotions and changes in body ...

Next, the team recruited eight human “supersniffers”—people with acute senses of smell who have undergone extensive training on categorizing and quantifying complex smells—to develop odor ...

Smell is a neglected sense. It’s hard to imagine living without sight, without sound, but smell? Most of us had COVID; life without scent wasn’t so bad. And yet, a nose can pick up so much ...

In less than a week, China initiated a series of naval drills in the South Pacific, Gulf of Tonkin, and off Taiwan’s southwest coast. People’s Liberation Army Navy Jiangkai-class frigate ...