Wine tasting with expertise is clearly a skill, but can this talent be learned? Experts think so, and there's science behind ...

A scientific study has revealed that plastic fragments were identified in olfactory bulbs – a brain region responsible for ...

PFAS are causing significant harm to the environment, people, pets, and wildlife, but it's not clear that proposed solutions ...

A study published in the journal JAMA Network Open and conducted by included researchers from the University of São Paulo ...

Microplastics have been detected in the smell centre of the human brain for the first time, suggesting the actual quantity of ...

Scientists in Brazil found microplastics in the brain tissue of cadavers, according to a new study published Monday in the ...

This led to the discovery that the air actually divides into two separate flow streams; one that is cleansed and humidified ...

The intricate relationship between the dopaminergic system and olfactory associative learning in Drosophila has been an intense scientific inquiry. Leveraging the formidable genetic tools, we ...

As unique as a fingerprint, your scent communicates a lot about you to others. Our skin emits a distinct smell that can ...

We know the components of the olfactory system — the odorant receptors, the olfactory sensory neurons, the regions in the nervous system — that allow us to do that. But how exactly it works ...

If you have a dog, you may have noticed that its paws smell disturbingly similar to a popular snack food: Fritos. In fact, even the corn chip brand acknowledged the stinky similarity, tweeting in ...