Smelling salts are not banned by most of the major sports organizations, but endorsements by the leagues are few. So why are coaches trying them? Illustration: Kelsea Petersen / The Athletic; iStock ...

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Spraying a fast-drying clear coat onto a vehicle at Flow Lexus in Kernersville, N.C. There’s an iron law in the paint business: The faster it dries, the worse it looks. But then AI took a crack at it.

Fox’s cameras focused in on Kyle Shanahan right as the San Francisco 49ers coach took a big whiff from smelling salts, a substance the NFL banned before the start of this season. As Fox sideline ...

Even though I write about fragrance, I don’t necessarily like smelling like perfume, per se. That doesn’t mean, though, that I don’t want to smell good. In a perfect world, that would mean that the ...

Something doesn’t smell so great for moms to be. There are tons of studies that show that what you eat while pregnant can affect your unborn baby, contributing to everything from stress to ...

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During training camp, the NFL sent a memo to teams prohibiting them from providing smelling salts to players, citing a player-safety issue. The league, though, couldn’t ban ammonia packets without ...