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As mammals with large brains, humans experience smell as a powerful sensory experience that's closely linked with memory. The smell of baking bread may take us back to a moment in Paris. A perfumy ...

Summary: Researchers reveal a deeply unified mammalian brain blueprint for olfaction. By tracking free-roaming mice with high-velocity robotic cameras and recording directly from the olfactory bulbs ...

"People tend to think humans rely very little on our sense of smell to survive, and that it has deteriorated as we evolved and diverged from other animals," says Lian Deng, the study's corresponding ...

When Thomas Hummel gets a whiff of an unripe, green tomato, he finds himself in his childhood home in Bavaria. Under the tilted ceilings of the bedroom that he shared with his two older brothers, ...

Smell loss can be an early sign of neurodegenerative diseases, but it's possible to boost your sniffing abilities.