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 ...

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.

Malaria kills an estimated 800,000 people worldwide every year. But it might have met its match in an unlikely team that includes Bill Gates, and a whole lot of stinky feet. Here, a brief guide: What ...

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: ...

Shopbop is currently having a rare pre–Black Friday fall sale, which ends tomorrow, and tons of styles are deeply discounted right now. I’ve made a list of a few more cozy socks we love down below, ...

Exposure to carbon dioxide sharpens the senses of mosquitoes, enabling the bloodsuckers to better detect smelly socks and hone in on human prey, researchers found. This discovery, announced on Aug. 20 ...

The odour of smelly socks may save lives in Africa. Not-for-profit funding organization Grand Challenges Canada announced a grant Wednesday to help a Tanzanian doctor develop a trap that attracts and ...

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 ...