It turns out that Shakespeare might have been right all along and sniffing rosemary for remembrance could actually help slow ...

Humans and other animals actively sense their surrounding environment. This entails the deliberate adjustment of motor ...

Neural representations of external stimuli first occur as spatiotemporal patterns of activity across receptor neurons. Transformation of this primary receptor code is typically thought to arise from ...

Although, at a national level, it is estimated that less than 1 per cent of Indigenous young people regularly sniff petrol, in some small communities it is a significant source of illness, social ...

Sniffing acts as an important tool in the art of conversation and is used to indicate the end of a thought or the approach of a difficult subject, researchers claim. Research by the University of ...

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 ...

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases Wednesday testing what, if any, limits there are to the police using drug-sniffing dogs. By the close of two hours of argument, it looked very much ...

Steve Lindsay, a public health entomologist at Durham University, is midway through explaining how dogs might play a role in detecting COVID-19 infections when a decidedly less-well trained canine ...

Sniffing the air does more than just vacuum odors into your nose. It also ramps up electrical signals from the snout to the brain, helping the schnoz detect even faint scents. "Sniffing helps us to ...