A rare and endangered plant that has the distinct odour of old socks has bloomed for the first time publicly in the UK - for ...

You walk into your grandparent’s home, and there’s that odor that you only smell around them or around other senior citizens. It’s often described as smelling a bit musty, stale, or like ...

But despite the usefulness of smell, sight, touch and the other senses, they took millions of years to work themselves out. Indeed, many creatures in the tree of life have evolved just fine ...

We now know what ancient Egyptian mummies smell like, thanks to new research that deployed a team of trained 'sniffers'. And it turns out that despite being about 5,000 years old, they actually ...