Scientists have quantified and mapped the functional units of the olfactory center in the brains of vinegar flies responsible for the perception of odors. The basic units of the olfactory system in ...

Our noses encounter a vast diversity of chemicals every day, but scientists know little of how odorants stir awake the receptors in our bodies. A recent study is the first to parse the structure of a ...

A handful of left-handed women have excellent senses of smell, despite lacking olfactory bulbs. Is a pair of brain structures called the olfactory bulbs, which are said to encode our sense of smell, ...