For decades, textbooks repeated a tidy claim: the human nose can distinguish roughly 10,000 different odors. That number, ...

These effects are based on brain plasticity — the brain’s ability to reshape itself in response to experiences and learning.

For decades, textbooks repeated a tidy claim: the human nose could distinguish roughly 10,000 different smells. That number, ...

The sprawling network of the visual cortex reigned supreme in the field of sensory processing, contributing significantly to our understanding of sensory perception. In contrast, the study of ...

Your nose has its own microbiome, and it has a major impact on your brain. Here are some tips for keeping it in good shape to ...

Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have discovered that pheromones essential for mating behavior in mice are recognized by the nose and not by the vomeronasal system, as researchers had long ...

Kaboom! The first time most of us hear the sound of an explosion is in the movies. Encountering the sound in the real world—even at a distance—has a profoundly different effect. Why? It's all about ...

A research team recently invented a novel, wireless, skin-interfaced olfactory feedback system that can release various odours with miniaturized odor generators (OGs). The new technology integrates ...

Rendering the invisible visible is among scientists' favorite challenges. In their efforts to uncover how the olfactory system makes sense of thousands of otherwise invisible odors, scientists now ...

Research increasingly suggests that smell could play a role in memory retention—and you may be able to leverage the sense to ...