The science of smell is an exciting area of research.
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Conservation dogs perform vital roles across Australia. Some are guardians protecting wildlife from predators while others put their powerful sense of smell to use as sniffer dogs or detection dogs.
Human scent could one day be used as evidence in forensics and as diagnostic information in medicine.
The microbiome and its signature smells are crucial for most organisms, whether human, insect or plant. The silent signals sent by the microbiome are essential communications that influence behaviour.
There’s a lot of interesting science behind the fermenting, roasting, grinding and melting that turns chocolate into the bars, bonbons and baked goods you know and love.
Indoor air quality is affected by many things – and intentionally releasing a mix of chemicals is high on the list.
Mosquitoes can track down potential hosts using the CO2 released by humans’ metabolic processes, a medical entomologist explains.
Research into fox scents suggests a complex form of ‘chemical communication’ underlies the animal’s behaviour. The findings could help improve pest control methods and protect native wildlife.
Not all flowers smell good, to people at least, but their scents are a way to attract pollinators.
The stench was once thought to originate from plants, but scientists have now pin-pointed its true origin.
Brains recognize a smell based on which cells fire, in what order – the same way you recognize a song based on its pattern of notes. How much can you change the ‘tune’ and still know the smell?
Mmmmmmm. That smells delicious. Wait, how do you know that?
The history of smell in 18th-century England reveals the complex story of scent and personal space.
A weather expert explains where petrichor – that pleasant, earthy scent that accompanies a storm’s first raindrops – comes from.
Perhaps you’ve noticed something unusual in the bathroom after you consume this healthy spring vegetable. A Speed Read explains there’s two parts to the stinky puzzle: production and perception.
Rather than trying to out-compete each other, flowers may work together to attract bees en masse. It’s the sort of approach that is effective in the world of advertising too.
Smell is the Cinderella of the senses in Anglophone literature, but James Joyce wrote an olfactory revolution. His treatment of the science of smell was astonishingly prescient.
What’s the smell you associate with your childhood home? Or road-trips? Or fear? Conceptual artist Cat Jones has created the Scent of Sydney for the Sydney Festival, exploring the city in smells.
Puff adders have developed impressive techniques to avoid being detected by predators.
After a handshake, we learned this week that we sniff our hands. But why? Hand smells are not all that interesting in themselves. This points to possibilities that you might not want to hear.
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Honorary Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Psychology, University of Stirling
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Professor of Herpetology, Environmental Physiology and Physiology, Ecology and Evolution, University of the Witwatersrand
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PhD Candidate, School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor Emeritus, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor, Literary Studies, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Monash University
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Postdoctoral Researcher, University of the Aegean
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Research Scientist in Epidemiology, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
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Instructional Assistant Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University
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Lecturer in History, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Research Assistant, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Research Associate, Ph.D., University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Ph.D. Student in Neuroscience, New York University
