Your nose may be more powerful than you think. In a single sniff, the human sense of smell can distinguish odors within a ...

Right then kids, stay close please. We’re here in the park to find out about the human sense of smell. Let’s take a closer look at this fella, shall we? Now smells are actually made up of tiny ...

This week (July 7), a team described its research on the olfactory responses of the skin. Hanns Hatt of Ruhr University Bochum in Germany and colleagues examined the response of epidermal cells known ...

Mosquitos infected by the malaria parasite are more likely to land on and probe a substrate laced with human body odor than their uninfected counterparts. “We think [the parasite] is giving them a ...