A propane tank explosion ignited by a cigarette lighter left a Minnesota father and his five children in critical condition.

With more homes and businesses using natural gas for heat during the fall and winter months, Piedmont Natural Gas is ...

Several calls were made to University police dispatchers about a “rotten egg smell” reminiscent of natural gas. Tim Busse, spokesman for University Services, said mercaptan, a chemical used in labs, ...

Unaware of the leak, the children entered first and did not recognize the distinct odor of mercaptan, the additive that gives ...

Natural gas by itself has no smell. An odorant called mercaptan is injected into natural gas, giving it the distinctive smell ...

Most peoples’ noses are working overtime. If you have a normal sense of smell, an hour’s worth of breathing comes with hundreds of “exploratory sniffs,” according to new research.

Anosmia, or loss of a sense of smell, has become a more familiar term over the past few years, thanks to the prevalence of this condition during the COVID pandemic. Researchers have studied ...

For most of us, sweat is a part of everyday life. It’s normal to smell after a hard workout or on a particularly hot day. Fun fact: the sweat itself isn’t what’s causing the stink.

Have you ever thought about what it would be like to lose your sense of taste and smell? Imagine waking up not being able to taste your breakfast, or smell the grass that's just been mowed outside.

A man in Greece was given a suspended one-month prison sentence after his conviction for disturbing his neighbors by repeatedly sneaking onto their properties and smelling their shoes. Addressing ...