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A study suggests sniffing chocolate helps boost your gym workout. No, we’re not kidding.
Rachael Mead was born unable to smell. It means she experiences the world differently – from tasting food, to a heightened risk of danger. But it’s not all bad.
Research suggests smell may help us sense illness, emotion and risk long before we notice anything consciously.
Humans have the hardware for scent, but hygiene and fragrance norms shape what we notice, fear and judge.
Humans and birds both have an underappreciated sense of smell.
Science now suggests this may be closer to the truth than researchers originally thought
Sniffing is a low-impact, low-cost and very valuable mental workout for dogs.
This sign of neurodegenerative disease often appears much earlier than other symptoms.
When a corpse flower bloomed on campus, atmospheric scientists got to work. What they discovered provides new evidence about the unique pollination strategies of a very unusual flower.
Our latest study showed that taste and smell were both found to activate a region of the brain important for taste, hunger and thirst.
Showers help remove dirt, oil, dead skin cells and sweat from our skin.
Many people are convinced Easter egg chocolate tastes better than regular chocolate, and they may be onto something.
It’s hard to imagine what it’s like to experience the world more through scent than sight.
Your sense of smell is directly linked to the part of your brain that generates emotions and memories.
As spiders do not have antennae as insects, it’s long been a mystery how they can smell.
Using examples from film and literature, Louks’s study explored how smell is used to discriminate against certain groups
Small, high-speed odour sensors are a step towards robots with a sense of smell.
A mouse-model study shows how the smell of menthol can reduce inflammation in the part of the brain associated with memory.
The microbiome and its signature smells are crucial for most organisms, whether human, insect or plant. The silent signals sent by the microbiome are essential communications that influence behaviour.
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Professor of Rhinology and Olfactology, University of East Anglia
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Associate Professor, Flavour Chemistry, University of Reading
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Professor of Food Science, Penn State
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Discovery Early Career Research Fellow, University of Sydney
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Professor of Experimental Psychology, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Professor of Psychology, University of Stirling
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Senior Lecturer in Animal Science, Nottingham Trent University
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Research Associate, Southern Cross University
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Senior Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Carla Rizzo Delray Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Professor of Pervasive Computing, City St George's, University of London
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Researcher, Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne