A dog's nose is a work of art, an organ that's evolved to be incredibly sensitive to a wide variety of odors. Dogs put their noses in all sorts of places, many of which we find disgusting or offensive ...

As mammals with large brains, humans experience smell as a powerful sensory experience that’s closely linked with memory. The smell of baking bread may take us back to a moment in Paris. A perfumy ...

People often think dogs navigate the world the way we do, only with better hearing and a tendency to pause at every tree. We joke when they stare into what looks like nothing or insist on examining ...

Dogs do some things better than humans. For one thing, most dogs have a far better sense of smell than we do, and there is a physical reason for that. The sinuses of humans have about 6 million ...