A rose by any other name smells as sweet, even when you only conjure up its fragrance in your mind. That’s because people use their noses to sniff imaginary as well as real aromas, and the mere act of ...

Breathe in through your nose, and chances are you will feel the air coming in and also smell something nearby. Researchers have discovered how these sensations are kept separate and why sniffing can ...

The smell of freshly baked brownies can trigger a stampede to the kitchen, while the stench of a garbage dump makes us hold our breath. Now, a study from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel ...

Without being able to talk to each other, rats use sniffing as one way to answer key questions about strangers. Is that a female? Can I mate with her? Is this one sick? What did he eat? — All of this ...

Our sense of smell is still relatively mysterious. Recently, though, researchers have started to explore how sniffing helps to identify odors, as well as how our nose tells the sensation of air ...