Spiders have always lived alongside humans, so it's surprising how much we still don't know about them. One long-standing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A woman on X (formerly Twitter) unintentionally caused a series of online debates after posting about her Ph.D dissertation on the ethics of smell. The viral post has over 108 million views as of ...

After getting dumped (by text), a writer investigates the feverish boom in heartbreak apps, breakup coaches, and get-over-him getaways.

Face to face interaction is how we learn patience, and a sense of public space. It helps us conceptualise a shared reality. But now, online communities tell us how the ‘real world’ works.

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