In their study, published online in Scientific Reports on December 12, they reported that, on average, the turkey vulture has an olfactory bulb that is four times larger than that of the black ...

Guest post by Amanda White. Winter has arrived with a vengeance ... Incoming smells are first processed by the olfactory bulb, which starts inside the nose and runs along the bottom of the ...

Noam Sobel and colleagues from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, wanted to make the olfactory equivalent of white light and white noise. Because white light is made up of all ...

Why? After a smell enters the nose, it travels through the cranial nerve through the olfactory bulb, which helps the brain process smells. The olfactory bulb is part of the limbic system ...