Cats may not look like they’re sniffing out mysteries, but their noses are constantly at work—mapping the world, reading signals, and even picking up on your emotions. With up to 200 million scent ...

Along with possible sinus or respiratory concerns, your cat's nose can indicate other types of health issues, too. "Sores or blisters on the nose could be the result of a viral infection, trauma, or ...

Could your cat recognize you out of a crowd without ever having laid eyes on you? The answer is a resounding yes, and all thanks to scent. In a study involving 30 house cats, researchers discovered ...

Scientists have found the secret to felines' finesse at sniffing out food, friends and foes. A complex collection of tightly coiled bony airway structures gets the credit, according to the first ...

Cats have a fantastic reputation when it comes to cleanliness. Their special tongues with a texture that resembles sandpaper helps them to remove dirt as it has backward-facing papillae (hooks) made ...

Contrary to what one would expect of an animal with a relatively small head and very short snout, cats exhibit an extremely sensitive sense of smell (Shagil_Kannur003/Wikimedia via Courthouse News).

A new computer simulation of domestic cats’ noses suggests that the convoluted nasal structures involved in their sense of smell function similarly to parallel coiled gas chromatographs—laboratory ...

Cats may not look like they’re sniffing out mysteries, but their noses are constantly at work—mapping the world, reading signals, and even picking up on your emotions. With up to 200 million scent ...