A mouse-model study shows how the smell of menthol can reduce inflammation in the part of the brain associated with memory.
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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.
Flies often beat out competitors for food because of their specialized sensing organs called antennae.
Dogs love to sniff, and they’re good at it.
Rodents destroy around 70 million tonnes of grain each year. What if we could trick them into looking elsewhere for their food?
From surprising ingredients to chemical compounds. Here’s why your favourite perfume might not smell so sweet on your mum.
Researchers explore what happens when ants can’t properly use smell to detect friend from foe.
Stimuli such as light and shadow and our perception of the passage of time matter to architects interested in the branch of philosophy known as phenomenology.
No two people will react to the same smell in the same way.
New research finds that psychological stress has an odour - and dogs can smell it.
Fresh sweat doesn’t have a smell. It’s the bacteria that feast on sweat that cause the bad smell.
Many people have been left with longer-term impairments to their sense of smell following COVID.
With the right training, dogs can sniff out more than 90% of COVID cases.
It’s intriguing how some people experience ASMR while others don’t - our latest research suggests that many ASMR responders are highly sensitive “orchids”.
Understanding how the brain translates smells into behavior change can help advance search and rescue technology and treatments for neurological conditions.
A smell will often take us back to a particular place and time. But how are place and smell linked in the brain?
Two tongue tips are better than one – an evolutionary biologist explains why snakes have forked tongues.
Who’s a good doggie? Sniffer dogs might one day be able to screen people for COVID-19 in large crowds. But not when they’re hungry or need a good lie down.
A transcript of episode 10 of The Conversation Weekly podcast, including a story on a new technique to prevent predators eating the eggs of endangered birds.
Not all flowers smell good, to people at least, but their scents are a way to attract pollinators.
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Professor of Rhinology and Olfactology, University of East Anglia
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Associate Professor, Flavour Chemistry, University of Reading
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Professor of Food Science, Penn State
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Discovery Early Career Research Fellow, University of Sydney
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Professor of Psychology, University of Stirling
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Senior Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Bournemouth University
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Researcher, Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne
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Research Scientist in Epidemiology, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age, The University of Melbourne
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PhD Student in Cognitive Psychology, Bournemouth University
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Researcher, University of Stirling
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Carla Rizzo Delray Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Senior Lecturer, University of Portsmouth
