A dog’s sense of smell is nothing short of extraordinary. While humans primarily rely on sight to understand the world, dogs ...

YouTuber James Odgers, better known online as Chewbonic, underwent a successful surgery to restore his sense of smell before ...

Of all the senses, olfaction — smell — must be the most primal and evocative, the most magically elusive. With just around ...

In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we demonstrated that male spiders use olfactory ...

Spiders have always lived alongside humans, so it's surprising how much we still don't know about them. One long-standing ...

I celebrated finishing my PhD. After three and a half years of writing and research, it was an occasion I wanted to share with my academic network, so I posted a photo of myself holding a physical ...

Smell is the vibiest of the senses, tied most strongly to memory and most weakly, it seems, to language. Growing up, I had a box of 120 crayons, a rainbow 15 times over. I still remember seafoam green ...

The sense of smell is a complex process of the central nervous system that involves specific areas of the brain. In fact, olfactory dysfunction is seen in various central nervous system disorders ...

In each of the texts I considered, smell takes on a role beyond mere sense perception. I include examples from well-known works by George Orwell, Vladimir Nabokov, J.M. Coetzee and Toni Morrison ...