A recent study published in Current Biology has found that animals living at elevations of 1,000 meters and higher have a ...

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My first sign of smell loss came with a morning espresso. I’d normally pop out of bed to make it and then slip back under the ...

This study provides important findings on the neural circuits underlying dishabituation of the olfactory avoidance response in Drosophila. The data as presented provide solid evidence that the ...

Delve into the secrets behind a dog's nose and how it just may be able to uncover impending death before we do.

Another measure of an animal's smelling ability may be the size of its olfactory bulb, the brain region responsible for processing odors. Dogs, which are famous for their scent-tracking skills, have ...

The nose, she knows, is loaded with bacteria, and they’re “really, really close” to the brain—mere millimeters from the olfactory bulb, which processes smell.

Eight out of the 15 brains studied had microplastics in their olfactory bulbs. However, these eight samples had only 16 microplastic particles between them, which is perhaps some comfort.

Study Overview The study examined the olfactory bulbs of fifteen deceased individuals, aged between 33 and 100, all of whom had resided in São Paulo for over five years.

A study published in JAMA Network Open confirmed that microplastics can be present in the olfactory bulbs of the brain in people, based on their analysis of 15 deceased people.

Olfactory bulbs help detect and process scents and odors, passing information from the nose to the brain. Microplastics have been found in human brains, according to recent research that has not ...