You’re watching a scary movie. Or dreading that dentist appointment you have in a few hours. Your heart’s racing—and you swear your dog seems to notice. Are you imagining things, or can your ...

In a first, scientists have shown dogs can smell when their owners are stressed from the smell of their breath. Four dogs, ...

A dog's nose is a work of art, an organ that's evolved to be incredibly sensitive to a wide variety of odors. Dogs put their noses in all sorts of places, many of which we find disgusting or offensive ...

As mammals with large brains, humans experience smell as a powerful sensory experience that’s closely linked with memory. The smell of baking bread may take us back to a moment in Paris. A perfumy ...

This post was paid for by an advertiser. The Herald-Dispatch newsroom was not involved in its creation. Dogs live in a world that is guided by smell. What humans notice with their eyes, dogs often ...

Dogs do some things better than humans. For one thing, most dogs have a far better sense of smell than we do, and there is a physical reason for that. The sinuses of humans have about 6 million ...