Doggy diagnosis can sniff out seizures: study

Dogs can use their remarkable sense of smell to recognise the specific scent of seizures, researchers said Thursday, raising hope that canine carers could one day protect sufferers before a fit takes hold.

What your body odour says about you

Smells emanating from you can reveal anything from your health status to your personality or political taste.

Even wild mammals have regional dialects

Researchers from Cardiff University's Otter Project have discovered that genetically distinct populations of wild otters from across the UK have their own regional odours for communicating vital information to each other. ...

New sniffer dog research could save lives

A team of scientists has provided the first evidence that dogs can learn to categorise odours and apply this to scents they have never encountered before.

A universal food and alarm cue found in mammalian blood

Predators use the smell to home in on wounded animals, whereas mammalian prey species avoid the same odour. This suggests that there may be an old, preserved, evolutionarily food and alarm molecule within the blood odour ...

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