Have you ever loved the way a perfume smelled on someone else, only to find it smells completely different on you? You’re not ...

Our noses are worthy of a bigger fuss than they perhaps receive. While they can be a handy place to rest your specs, or even decorate with a spot of jewellery, there’s still a lot of science ...

A study, by a team at Massachusetts General Hospital in the US, found that how well we identify and remember different smells could warn us about cognitive decline. As part of their work ...

Bears have lots of little muscles in their snouts, which let them point their noses in different directions. This helps bears identify exactly which direction a smell is coming from. The strength ...

With hundreds of smell receptors in our noses it’s no wonder that this remarkable sense is one of our most powerful connections to the physical world. And it’s this very influence that makes ...

When the nostrils sense different smells, they may be duking it out for the brain's attention, according to a study published online today (August 20) in Current Biology. Such rivalry, well-documented ...