One happy customer wrote, “No matter how smelly your feet get they cannot stink in these socks! I run 10 miles in the socks with no smell. … They’re the perfect athletic sock—worth the ...

Its smell clings to his hair and clothing, but at least it serves its purpose: keeping the mosquitoes at bay. Like almost everyone in the village of Uyoma, Okumu lost family and friends to ...

Smelly socks and sweaty shirts: Why your laundry stinks, and how to stop it Date: May 19, 2016 Source: Elsevier Summary: Scientists have identified the molecules that make our clothes smell.

Mosquitoes infected with the malaria parasite are significantly more attracted to human odors -- in this case smelly socks -- than are uninfected mosquitoes, researchers reported Wednesday ...

The Smelly Pizza Sock Gift Set ($17) contains six pairs of pizza-themed socks, but here's the twist: All of these socks actually smell like pizza. We have mixed feelings about these socks.

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.

If the sock pads prove adequate, they will be the preferred bait. The inside surfaces of some traps are coated with an organophosphate pesticide. Mosquitoes that land there will die within 24 hours.

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.