When we think about Parkinson’s disease, most of us picture trembling hands or a shuffling walk. But what if your nose could ...

Joy Milne’s life has changed immeasurably since the day she ambushed an eminent stem-cell biologist at a talk in Edinburgh, ...

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Rowan suggests having a variety of scents in your surroundings, which can help keep your nose and smell nerves attuned.

Our Future Chronicles column explores an imagined history of inventions yet to come – this time how, by the mid-21st century, ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: What if you could use your nose to snorkel, or uproot a small tree, or smell water from several miles away? Well, elephants wouldn't be that ...

From picking up the scent of a potential mate miles away to uncovering an explosive, a dog's nose is always hard at work ...

Humans can usually tell the difference between about 10,000 different smells. But if they’ve got a bad cold, all that snot blocking their nose might stop them from being able to smell at all.

Her nose can even tell her when a woman has entered the menopause or if someone is pregnant, “which can be a bit awkward, though [pregnancy is] a lovely smell, actually”.

Dogs have a truly astonishing sense of smell that goes far beyond anything we could imagine. From picking up the scent of a potential mate miles away to uncovering an explosive, a dog's nose is al ...