Your brain essentially “tunes out” constant smells in your home. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Getty Images) You’ve probably walked into someone else’s home and noticed the lingering scents ...

TikTokkers and others on social media call it nose blindness — when you smell an odor so often that you lose the ability to smell it at all, including your own breath in certain cases. It’s a ...

Jennifer Mulligan, Ph.D., works in her laboratory recently. Her research shows an active form of vitamin D in a nasal spray might help treat a loss of the sense of smell caused by inflammation. (Photo ...

October 29, 2025, Alexandria, Virginia—A new treatment using platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections has shown promising results in helping people recover their sense of smell after head injuries, ...

A pair of American scientists who as co-workers and later as competitors worked out the basic biology of the sense of smell -- one of the body's most enigmatic and emotion-laden functions -- yesterday ...

You’ve probably walked into someone else’s home and noticed the lingering scents of last night’s salmon dinner, pet odor, musty bedrooms or slightly mildewy bathrooms. But why is it so hard to tell if ...