Meet ammonium chloride! And as Liman explains, the more we learn about new bodily functions, the more we learn about our ...

In collaboration with Medical Detection Dogs, a team at Imperial College London has discovered dogs can detect bacteria like ...

When it brings its tongue back in, the molecules contact special receptors and the snake senses the molecules as a smell. A fly tastes with its feet. At the end of a fly’s legs is a foot-like ...

In the nasal cavity they bind with odor receptors—and it’s those receptors, of which humans have somewhere between 350 and 400 types, that are the main source of what we perceive as flavor.

What if this difference is due in part to something as simple, and strange, as a smell receptor? A recent paper in Science Advances explores this idea — and is part of a growing body of research ...

There was an added significance to Kayce's reaction for his human companion Emmy. It was her "first baby" reacting to the ...

From picking up the scent of a potential mate miles away to uncovering an explosive, a dog's nose is always hard at work ...

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

“Dogs have an incredible sense of smell. They have many more smell receptors than humans and a greater surface area to pass more air through,” says Dr MacMillan. A receptor is a part of the ...