The company behind the spill says it was animal waste, but the Kansas Highway Patrol tells us that it was human waste.

The Springfield Township Fire Department has a new Human Remains Detection dog, also known as a cadaver dog. His name is ...

Despite being one of our key senses, the molecular mechanisms of smell remain poorly understood. Mason Wakely sniffs out the ...

Analyzing 5.5 million mouse neurons revealed an order to what scientists had believed to be chaos.

Even after surfaces dry, the smell of vinegar can still linger in the air or on floors, especially in enclosed spaces. Cats ...

Scientists know that smell depends on a vast library of receptors, each tuned to different odor molecules. But they could not ...

In two new studies, researchers used genetic techniques to upend a longstanding assumption that nerve cells with scent ...

It has been said that human beings can distinguish and mentally catalog more than 10,000 distinct scents, and yet despite the acuity of our noses, smell itself remains our least understood and least ...

And that is a problem, because smell is extremely important not only for getting information about our surroundings, but also ...

The odor receptors in the nose are not distributed at random but organized in a precise spatial pattern, two new studies ...