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

Were you going to get sick? How Smells Work First, let’s see how we smell things. Smell is due to molecules of a particular substance that travel into your nose. These odor molecules contact a tissue ...

Surprisingly, the mechanics of how we smell things and recognise odours still aren't fully understood. US scientists Richard Axel and Linda Buck won the 2004 Nobel prize for their groundbreaking ...

Confined, isolating environments influence sense of smell In an Earth-like setting, eating was often social, but eating in space on long missions can feel quite different, Low said. "Results ...

Show more Professor Luca Turin has always been interested in how perfumes smell. But he’s also interested in how we smell perfumes. Because how we are able to experience smell is still unknown.

Of all our senses, smell is probably the least understood. For vision, there are two types of light-sensing receptors in the ...

It seems we are taught which smells are unpleasant; the disgust response is almost entirely lacking in children under the age of two. Our sense of smell is apparently shaped by society and ...