Indiatimes19d
Do snakes smell with their tongue or nose? Unveiling their unique senses and fascinating facts
Through this special sense of "smell," snakes can detect things such as dirt, plants, and other animals. It aids them in avoiding predators and catching prey, offering an extraordinary way to ...
USA Today21d
'Strong smell' of 100 live pigs in the cargo causes 26-hour flight diversion
Last Friday, flight KL685 was about midway through its journey from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to Mexico City International Airport when "a strong smell caused by live animals (pigs) in the cargo ...
Scientific American23d
Book Review: The Surprising Comeback of Our Least Appreciated Sense
The Forgotten Sense: The New Science of Smell and the Extraordinary Power of the Nose by Jonas Olofsson. Mariner, 2025 ($28) As COVID spread across the world in early 2020, people began to report ...
psypost.org23d
Scientists discover a weird fact about people with no sense of smell
A recent study published in Nature Communications has uncovered that individuals with congenital anosmia—a condition where a person is born without the ability to smell—exhibit altered patterns of ...
The Conversation23d
My research on the politics of smell divided the internet – here’s what it’s actually about
In each of the texts I considered, smell takes on a role beyond mere sense perception. I include examples from well-known works by George Orwell, Vladimir Nabokov, J.M. Coetzee and Toni Morrison ...