Scientists have identified the molecules that make our clothes smell. Dirty laundry smells bad because of certain chemicals called volatile organic compounds, which can’t always be washed out on an ...

Just you wait until the world’s governments are putting out the call for smelly socks—suddenly that bulging gym bag hidden in your dormitory’s wardrobe seems a lot more valuable. To Tanzania anyway, ...

As it turns out, smelly socks can do more than stink up the laundry basket. In an effort to combat malaria, researchers in Tanzania are developing devices that use human foot odor to lure mosquitoes.

Reporting from Johannesburg, South Africa — As a boy in remote western Kenya, Fredros Okumu sat under the stars, smothered by the smoke of the family fire, until it was time to go to bed. Even now, ...

In global public health, disease-fighting tools that are cheap, available and sustainable are the Holy Grail. It might be hard to top the one being tested in Tanzania as a way to prevent malaria: ...

Footage recorded from the train carriage in Beijing, China, shows passengers huddling near the doors in a bid to avoid being struck by the smell A BRAZEN commuter took off his smelly socks in a packed ...

Does your diabetes medication smell like dead fish or smelly socks? You're not alone. Many patients who took the common diabetes drug metformin report being so disgusted by its smell that they stopped ...

A man who had a bizarre habit of sniffing his smelly socks every day after work has been diagnosed with severe fungal infection in his lungs in China. The 37-year-old man, surnamed Peng, was admitted ...