Kaboom! The first time most of us hear the sound of an explosion is in the movies. Encountering the sound in the real ...

Olfactory System: The sensory system responsible for the sense of smell, which detects airborne chemicals. Chemosensory Receptors: Proteins that detect chemical stimuli, allowing organisms to ...

Dolphins have specialized receptors to detect fatty acids in mother's milk, aiding in assessing nutritional value of food.

report that the piriform-to-olfactory bulb feedback in the mouse carries multimodal identity and reward contingency signals, which are re-formatted within seconds, according to behavioral context.

Just like physiotherapy after a physical injury, olfactory training is thought to act like rehabilitation for your sense of ...

Patients with advanced chronic kidney disease, particularly those on maintenance hemodialysis, may have reduced perception of ...

The human olfactory system discriminates between thousands of odors by interacting specifically with olfactory receptors on sensory neurons. Each receptor can detect several odorants at different ...

Imaging study reveals that infants as young as 1-month old process odors, shedding light on how early neural processes for ...

We study how the brain represents sensory information to allow it to store unique memories, using the olfactory system of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as a model system. How does the brain ...

Studying olfactory adaptations in marine species can inform us about the evolutionary trade-offs between sensory specialization and ecological versatility. Similarly, it can lead to scientists ...

Scientists have discovered that juvenile bottlenose dolphins have specialized receptors for detecting the fatty acids in ...