Humans can distinguish at least one trillion odors, but we don’t necessarily make full use of that capability. For wild animals, where smell is associated with survival, scents may provide life or ...

Summary: Researchers reveal a deeply unified mammalian brain blueprint for olfaction. By tracking free-roaming mice with high-velocity robotic cameras and recording directly from the olfactory bulbs ...

"People tend to think humans rely very little on our sense of smell to survive, and that it has deteriorated as we evolved and diverged from other animals," says Lian Deng, the study's corresponding ...

As mammals with large brains, humans experience smell as a powerful sensory experience that's closely linked with memory. The smell of baking bread may take us back to a moment in Paris. A perfumy ...