Imagine navigating a pitch-black room and knowing exactly where every object is without ever switching on a light.

Today, we explore a UTSA lab where taste is the topic of the day. JULY 15, 2025 — Students working at The Macpherson Lab this ...

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

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 ...

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

The tiny sensory organs that cover our tongue allow us ... "You can burn your tongue and damage your taste buds but they ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Intermodal integration of taste and odor into a flavor perception is found only at suprathreshold levels, suggesting an attentional component in flavor-perception integration 6.