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There might be an advantage to separating scent information from each nostril, a new study hints. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

When the scent of morning coffee wafts past the nose, the brain encodes which nostril it enters, new research shows 1. Integrating information from both nostrils might help us to identify the odour.

Last Word is New Scientist’s long-running series in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions, ranging from the minutiae of everyday life to absurd astronomical hypotheticals. To ...

Last Word is New Scientist’s long-running series in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions, ranging from the minutiae of everyday life to absurd astronomical hypotheticals. To ...

ANY SCHOOLCHILD knows that a whale breathes through its blowhole. Fewer know that a blowhole is an adapted nostril, tweaked by evolution into a form more useful for a mammal that spends its life at ...

Regardless of age or level of education, sometimes we think we know things only to find out we were wrong or knew only a fraction of the facts. That's what happened last week when I discovered details ...

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