Although smell has historically played an important role in the fight against diseases such as the plague and tuberculosis, the human nose is generally not sensitive enough to be used as a reliable ...

Most of us carry around a phone with a microphone and camera that can replicate our senses of vision and hearing. What our phones can’t do, and what no other device can do, is replicate our sense of ...

Conventional electronic noses rely on arrays of chemical sensors whose electrical responses are often affected by humidity, temperature fluctuations, and long-term drift. While these systems have ...

Could an artificial “nose”—one much more sensitive than our human snouts—help prevent food waste? An interdisciplinary team behind a project called NourishNet at the University of Maryland is hoping ...

The mighty snouts on dogs are famously known for their abilities to sniff out everything from disease to explosives, but science is quickly catching up with its own range of artificial noses. Now, in ...

To protect works of art, including this image of Disney’s Steamboat Willie, scientists developed an optoelectronic “nose” to sniff out potentially damaging compounds in pollution. Still from ...

An electronic nose modeled on insect antennae simultaneously identifies gas mixtures and pinpoints their three-dimensional origin by decoding the natural dynamics of odor plumes.

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Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) have created an antenna nose in a laboratory at the Gjøvik campus. Although smell has historically played an important role in ...