(Medical Xpress)—As occurred in the painstaking deciphering of Egyptian hieroglyphs, adherence to outmoded ideas is a lasting impediment to our understanding of how odorants are decoded by the ...

Our noses can effortlessly distinguish the aroma of coffee from the tang of gasoline, yet how they do it has long been a mystery. In a study that appears Oct. 30 in Nature, scientists at Duke ...

Most of us would feel pressed if someone asked us to come up with a word or phrase to describe our favorite perfume or cologne. For one reason, most of us pay little attention to smell and therefore ...

Here’s an interesting problem. When it comes to human senses, we’ve found ways to reproduce the look and sound of the real world reasonably accurately. There are even technologies for reproducing the ...

A specific session will be dedicated to demonstrations in digital olfaction field. Creators can personally exhibit their devices, products, and solutions on-site. The 8 th Annual Meeting of the ...

There are hundreds of receptors in the human nose that can pick up thousands of odors with each sniff. But how do we make sense of the scents? Smell researchers Stuart Firestein and Donald Wilson ...

Dr. Marvin Edeas, founder and chairman of the Digital Olfaction Society Scientific Board, shared his vision for the future of digital olfaction, stating: “We are at the era of a revolution in digital ...

We already know we can teach machines to see. Sensors enable autonomous cars to take in visual information and make decisions about what to do next when they’re on the road. But did you know machines ...

Researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center have found that taking as little as a hundred milliseconds longer to smell an odor results in more accurate identification of that odor. This seemingly ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Márquez is a marine scientist and science communicator Understanding the intricate mechanisms of shark olfaction not only deepens ...

The chemical senses, taste and olfaction, are ripe with commercial promise. Yet despite recent advances in understanding their genetic and molecular mechanisms, they have not drawn the level of ...