This “cognitive perspective” lies at the heart of The Forgotten Sense. How we experience a smell or taste depends both on our ...

We’re here to check out some animals that are real smell specialists ... Nares don’t lead into the throat the way nostrils do in mammals, but open up into a special chamber stuffed full ...

But many questions about smell remain unresolved. How do we distinguish so many odors? What is the relationship between a molecule’s structure and the scent it evokes? And most importantly ...