Meet ammonium chloride! And as Liman explains, the more we learn about new bodily functions, the more we learn about our ...

Once they’re dissolved, different odours cause different receptors to fire off signals to the brain through special nerves. The brain sorts out one smell from another based on whichreceptors ...

When it brings its tongue back in, the molecules contact special receptors and the snake senses the molecules as a smell. A fly tastes with its feet. At the end of a fly’s legs is a foot-like ...

From picking up the scent of a potential mate miles away to uncovering an explosive, a dog's nose is always hard at work ...

What if this difference is due in part to something as simple, and strange, as a smell receptor? A recent paper in Science Advances explores this idea — and is part of a growing body of research ...

In the nasal cavity they bind with odor receptors—and it’s those receptors, of which humans have somewhere between 350 and 400 types, that are the main source of what we perceive as flavor.

Scientists used laser sensors to study how dogs' brains react to smells. Findings may change health and rescue work.

From picking up the scent of a potential mate miles away to uncovering an explosive, a dog's nose is always hard at work ...

Our Future Chronicles column explores an imagined history of inventions yet to come – this time how, by the mid-21st century, ...

Half of the unprovoked shark attacks in the U.S. last year took place along the Florida coastline, new data shows.

“Dogs have an incredible sense of smell. They have many more smell receptors than humans and a greater surface area to pass more air through,” says Dr MacMillan. A receptor is a part of the ...