Dawn Millard, whose 15-year-old daughter Abi was born without a sense of smell, recalls years of feeling alone and misunderstood as she struggled to find doctors who could diagnose and help her child.

The way that smell serves as an alarm system is clearly important enough, but there are even more reasons why evolution has kept our sense of smell around. You know how happy you get when you ...

Zhou's team published its findings Monday in the journal Nature Human Behaviour.. Human's sense of smell is nowhere near that of many animals, such as dogs. But it may not be as sluggish as most ...

It’s a hue-ge breakthrough. Scientists from Liverpool John Moores University in the UK have drawn a connection between how people smell and see colors. The body of work, published last week in ...

Most peoples’ noses are working overtime. If you have a normal sense of smell, an hour’s worth of breathing comes with hundreds of “exploratory sniffs,” according to new research.