On November 13, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the release of its final supplement to the ...

A new scientific study has confirmed something we’ve known culturally for a long time — meaning it’s now time to flee the ...

Moore and Stephen R Robinson You know that feeling you get when you take a breath of fresh air in nature? There may be more ...

Also, because a single breath contains minuscule quantities of nutrients, it hasn't seemed meaningful. Aeronutrients enter our body by being absorbed through networks of tiny blood vessels in the nose ...

Aeronutrients enter our body by being absorbed through networks of tiny blood vessels in the nose, lungs, olfactory epithelium (the area where smell is detected) and the oropharynx (the back of ...

Detecting danger is key to the survival and success of all species. Animal nervous and immune systems cooperate to optimize danger detection. Preceding studies have highlighted the benefits of ...

A patch of skin on the roof of our nasal cavity is chock-full of olfactory sensory neurons – between 12 and 20 million of them. Photo / Getty Images Our friend Andrew holds the glass to his left ...

The olfactory system is the sensory system that is responsible for the sense of smell (olfaction). It receives, processes and interprets odour information. The microanatomy of the axonal ...

The olfactory bulb is the part of the central nervous system that receives olfactory information from the olfactory receptor neurons and relays the information to subcortical and cortical areas of ...