As mammals with large brains, humans experience smell as a powerful sensory experience that’s closely linked with memory. The smell of baking bread may take us back to a moment in Paris. A perfumy ...

Wally looks like he had a great time going shopping with his mom and used his very good sense of smell to pretend he's a scent sommelier and an expert on which candles smell the best. And his sense of ...

Growing up, Julian Meeks knew what a life without a sense of smell could look like. He’d watched this grandfather navigate the condition known as anosmia, observing that he didn’t perceive flavor and ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

“Take the time to stop and smell the roses.” It’s our metaphor for enjoying life and living in the moment. But what if you lose your ability to smell the roses? New research from the Johns Hopkins ...

Most people think of smell as the least important of their five senses. But a growing body of research suggests smell is not just essential for perceiving things like food and flowers but also for ...

In 1999, when smell was first measured, 48% of participants displayed a normal sense of smell, 28% showed a decreased sense of smell, known as hyposmia, and 24% had a profound loss of the sense, known ...

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Humans and other animals actively sense their surrounding environment. This entails the deliberate adjustment of motor behavior involved in sensory sampling (i.e., movements of the eyes, ears and ...

In a study that followed more than 2,000 community-dwelling older adults over eight years, researchers say they have significant new evidence of a link between decreased sense of smell and risk of ...