Our noses can effortlessly distinguish the aroma of coffee from the tang of gasoline, yet how they do it has long been a mystery. In a study that appears Oct. 30 in Nature, scientists at Duke ...

An electronic nose modeled on insect antennae simultaneously identifies gas mixtures and pinpoints their three-dimensional ...

Dr. Marvin Edeas, founder and chairman of the Digital Olfaction Society Scientific Board, shared his vision for the future of digital olfaction, stating: “We are at the era of a revolution in digital ...

A specific session will be dedicated to demonstrations in digital olfaction field. Creators can personally exhibit their devices, products, and solutions on-site. The 8 th Annual Meeting of the ...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic was declared early in 2020, following the emergence of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in December of the previous ...

Researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center have found that taking as little as a hundred milliseconds longer to smell an odor results in more accurate identification of that odor. This seemingly ...

There are hundreds of receptors in the human nose that can pick up thousands of odors with each sniff. But how do we make sense of the scents? Smell researchers Stuart Firestein and Donald Wilson ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Márquez is a marine scientist and science communicator Understanding the intricate mechanisms of shark olfaction not only deepens ...

Olfaction may play an important role in the motivation to seek voluntary exercise, according to a new study. The University of California, Riverside (UCR) researchers speculate that "individual ...

The chemical senses, taste and olfaction, are ripe with commercial promise. Yet despite recent advances in understanding their genetic and molecular mechanisms, they have not drawn the level of ...