New research suggests that our sense of taste and smell are actually linked through our tongue first and not our brain.

If so, that means a shark can taste you even before it bites you. In some species, inhibiting the pit organs messes with a shark’s ability to orient itself with respect to water currents. Perhaps the ...

If you’re among the 19% of Americans who report changes in their sense of taste as they get older, it might be some cause for alarm. New research suggests that losing your sense of taste ...

A team of researchers report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on a new graphene-based sensor design ...

What Sensory Receptors Do Outside of Sense Organs. Odor, taste, and light receptors are present in many different parts of the body, and they have surprisingly diverse functions. Sandeep Ravindran.

Carolyn Korsmeyer, pictured here, talks about a hierarchy within the senses: “With touch and taste, certainly you're aware of your body interacting with something. When the body is involved, you start ...

From the First Bite, Our Sense of Taste Helps Pace Our Eating ... A deeper understanding of how signals from different parts of the body control appetite would open doors to designing weight-loss ...

ABOUT ten years ago, Alexey Bogoslavsky and Krikor Kekcheyev in Moscow and Alexander Dolin in Leningrad, working independently, demonstrated experimentally that the sensitivity of the human sense ...

The 5 senses decline with age: How to retool the brain to keep them sharp 'The brain is a very healthy and resilient organ. That's one reason ... to be upbeat and positive about taking care of it.' ...