But, with the myriad modern breeds, what makes for the best scent-detection dog? A new study published in PLOS One figured ...

Dogs are capable of using their nose for many tasks: hunting, retrieval, and finding that cookie crumb you dropped beneath the couch. Now we can add “mussel sniffing” to the list. The California ...

Just about everybody knows that dogs are blessed with a superior sense of smell. As a matter of fact, their sense of smell is so sophisticated that humans, in comparison, are olfactory illiterates.

Dogs have a powerful sense of smell, there's no doubt about that. While us humans stumble through life guided mostly by our eyes, our canine companions tend to walk through life with their noses, ...

Humans can be trained to identify the eggs of the invasive spotted lanternfly. But it’s not easy. The mottled gray color of the egg masses often matches the areas where they’re laid, or they’re ...

Research review finds scent dogs can successfully sniff out COVID-19, including asymptomatic cases, new variants and long COVID Scent dogs may represent a cheaper, faster and more effective way to ...

A recent study found that dogs can detect odor molecules much lower than what advanced machines can detect. The research highlights dogs' fantastic sense of smell, revealing their ability to detect ...