"Smell is an important way to engage with the world around us, and this study shows it may be a warning sign for late-life depression."

If you like water in your whiskey, you might want to go easy. A study shows too much can make different whiskies smell and taste the same.

Researchers explore what happens when ants can’t properly use smell to detect friend from foe.

Science author Harold McGee explores all things olfactory in “Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World’s Smells.”

Researchers are finding out more about how smell affects threat assessment in two new studies with mice.

Odor receptors grown in a lab dish indicate that Neanderthals and Denisovans were attune to different smells than we are.

In a new trial, participants who received nasal injections were 12.5 times more likely to have their sense of smell improve after COVID.

A paradoxical new finding shifts our understanding of smell. It may explain how we can tell smells apart and why some good smells go bad.

Millions of people haven't fully recovered their sense of smell after COVID-19. A relentless immune assault on olfactory nerve cells may be why.

The finding that flies can smell motion could influence public health, agriculture, and even the development of robots, say researchers.