As mammals with large brains, humans experience smell as a powerful sensory experience that’s closely linked with memory. The smell of baking bread may take us back to a moment in Paris. A perfumy ...

For the first time, researchers have determined how a human olfactory receptor captures an airborne scent molecule, the pivotal chemical event that triggers our sense of smell. Whether it evokes roses ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ladybugs lay down "trails" of scents to help guide other ladybugs to a meetup spot. Photograph By Javier Torrent/VWPics/Redux It’s ...

That musty smell could be more than just your old clothes, experts say.

When Thomas Hummel gets a whiff of an unripe, green tomato, he finds himself in his childhood home in Bavaria. Under the tilted ceilings of the bedroom that he shared with his two older brothers, ...