Imagine waking up one morning after recovering from Covid-19 to find that your coffee smells like unwashed socks, your eggs reek of feces and your orange juice tastes metallic. Oddly, that’s a good ...

Cochlear implants allow deaf people to process sounds and speech. Could a similar device help those who can no longer smell? Thomas Hummel, who researches smell and taste disorders at the Technical ...

You probably know that certain senses, like hearing and vision, become less acute with age. But you might not realize that taste is another one. In a 2025 study published in The International Forum of ...

Retrospective analysis of national data led by investigators from Mass Eye and Ear estimates that over 20 million COVID patients experienced loss of smell or taste in 2021, with a large portion of ...

Many workers in the food industry experiencing parosmia — or a long-term distorted sense of smell — find their lives and livelihoods disrupted. And they have trouble accessing help. Anaïs Saint-André ...

Steven Munger loves the sour smell of a butane lighter. The hydrocarbon, butane, is colorless and odorless, but sulfurous additives give it a stench that’s almost objectively foul. Almost. To Munger, ...