For decades, neuroscience textbooks taught that the roughly 1,100 types of odor receptors in a mouse’s nose were scattered more or less at random across the nasal lining. Two studies published in Cell ...

The human sense of smell connects directly to brain regions responsible for memory and cognitive function, making it a surprisingly accurate window into neurological health. As people age, changes in ...

Scientists have finally cracked one of the biggest mysteries in the senses: how smell is organized. By mapping millions of neurons in mice, researchers discovered that smell receptors in the nose aren ...

Research increasingly suggests that smell could play a role in memory retention—and you may be able to leverage the sense to ...

Scientists have further decoded how mammalian brains perceive odors and distinguish one smell from thousands of others. In experiments in mice, NYU Grossman School of Medicine researchers have for the ...

Most people instinctively react more strongly to other people’s bodily odors than to their own. Scientists believe this ...

Taste and smell are so intimately connected that a whiff of well-loved foods evokes their taste without any conscious effort. Now, brain scans and machine learning have for the first time pinpointed ...

The perceptual apparatus we understand the least is smell. And that is a problem, because smell is extremely important not only for getting information about our surroundings, but also for our ...

The human brain is even more incredible than we thought, a new study out of Israel suggests. Doctors there say they’ve found people who can smell just as well as anyone else, despite missing the key ...

A recent study examining the lasting impacts of the coronavirus concluded that people living with long COVID who suffer from anosmia -- the loss of smell -- experienced a significant shift in brain ...