Having a pot belly is long-established as a warning sign that your diet and lifestyle might be endangering your health.

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 ...

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

From dogs predicting your mood to sea turtles navigating with magnetic maps, animals may have senses humans can’t even ...

Think your in-flight meal tastes bland? Science says it's not the chef — it's the altitude. From umami boosts to spice-heavy ...

New research finds our tongues can ‘smell’ too — changing how scientists understand taste and opening doors to flavor ...

During heat waves, it’s not uncommon to see an uptick in foot traffic at our local fitness centers since they are ...

A better understanding of human smell is emerging as scientists interrogate its fundamental elements: the odor molecules that ...

OF the five ordinary senses recognised in ourselves and most higher animals, insects have, beyond all doubt, the sense of sight, and there can be as little question that they possess the senses of ...

A FORM of vitamin D could significantly improve core autism symptoms, researchers claim. Studies examining whether the common ...