Your nose may be more powerful than you think. In a single sniff, the human sense of smell can distinguish odors within a ...

“Many people have sniffed mummies, of course,” says Matija Strlič, a professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Ljubljana and a professor of heritage science at University College London.

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

Humans interpret much of the world through sight, but for a dog, it's their instinctual sense of smell that helps them ...

So the mice could smell a genetic difference. But could modern humans, who aren't known for a particularly good sense of smell, also make that distinction? In the first "sweaty T-shirt" experiment ...