If you’re sharing close quarters with someone during flu season, how would you know they are sick? The world mostly agrees, research finds.

"We're excited that this treatment could one day help many people who have lost a sense that is such a meaningful and important part of life."

Sharks, bees, and even the platypus share an ability to detect electric fields. Now, researchers have added fruit flies to the list.

Research in mice "demonstrates that early-life exposure to odor is essential for touch development and maturation."

"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."

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

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.

The unconventional way mosquitoes use their odd sense of smell to process odors could help explain why they are so good at finding and biting us.

New research digs into how your brain processes smells. The findings suggest the brain works through smells as snapshots and evolving patterns.