“The study of human olfaction has historically lagged that of vision and hearing, because as humans we think of ourselves as ...

New research explores the many ways our sensory experiences overlaps, teaching us new ways the brain perceives ...

Olfaction is one of the most elusive of the human senses. It sustains life by enabling several critical functions, such as our ability to locate and select food, our choice of mates, influencing ...

In a new study in JNeurosci, Thorsten Kahnt from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and colleagues explored olfaction development in humans and reveal how early humans begin to smell.

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 ...

In September 2024, these miniature pollutants were also discovered in the human olfactory bulb, a type of brain tissue that sits above the nose in the forebrain. At the time, researchers weren’t ...

Olfactory biosensors and bioelectronic detection systems are innovative technologies designed to mimic the human sense of smell. These systems utilize biological receptors to detect and identify ...