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The Institute for Art and Olfaction celebrates a decade of exploring our sense of smell. On a recent evening, masked students sat around stainless-steel tables in the scent lab at [...]

The scent of lily of the valley cannot be easily bottled. For decades companies that make soap, lotions and perfumes have relied on a chemical called bourgeonal to imbue their [...]

By shoving her nose against a fire hydrant, your terrier may be able to decipher which pit bull in the neighborhood marked it before her. But that doesn't necessarily mean [...]

Smell is one of the oldest human faculties, yet it was one of the last to be understood by scientists. It was not until the early 1990s that biologists first [...]

Here is a fun and easy experiment that Rachel Herz of Brown University suggests you try at home, but only if you promise to eat your vegetables first, floss afterward, […]

How well do you know your dog? The answer is, not nearly as well as your dog knows you. Given the right incentives, humans can certainly be perceptive enough. But […]

DR. RICHARD AXEL of Columbia University and its medical center did New York proud this week, as you may have read. With a colleague from Seattle, Dr. Linda B. Buck, […]

Schizophrenia is best known by its active symptoms, like paranoid delusions, but it also has passive ones, like an inability to experience pleasure. A report published last week in The […]

The sense of smell, as Marcel Proust and his madeleine made clear, is intimately tied to feeling and memory. So it is perhaps not surprising that in schizophrenia, an illness […]

As the woes of Oedipus and cuckolds of every species attest, there are many instances in which it would be useful to know just how closely related other individuals are […]