Originally thought to be present only in the nose, olfactory receptors exist in many locations in the body, including in the skin, heart, lungs, kidneys, muscles, and sperm. They are involved in a ...

A study conducted by Lufthansa found that at 30,000 feet, the perception thresholds for sweet and salty tastes drop by 30% to ...

Dan Berkowitz might never have noticed the phenomenon if not for the new lights. In 2012, Johns Hopkins University’s Berkowitz had just moved to a lab space where the lights were motion-activated, and ...

A tomato at sea level is still a tomato at 30,000 feet. But while the tomato remains unchanged between take off and cruising ...

She was sure there’d been a mistake. Yet in the intervening two decades, work from her lab and others has uncovered smell and taste receptors all over the body. Olfactory receptors have been ...

Discover techniques to maximize taste while reducing calories. These 7 cooking methods and ingredient swaps deliver ...

Scientists have made great progress in recent years in identifying taste receptors and the genes that code for them, but they are far from fully understanding the sensory machinery that produces ...

Both ibuprofen and naproxen potently inhibit hTAS1R2–TAS1R3 receptors that sense sweetness in a dose-dependent manner. The ...

When we ingest something, cells in our taste buds called sensory receptors send signals to the brain. In 2018, Liman and her team discovered that the receptor for sour taste is a critical protein ...

taste, and smell—as well as the internal vestibular, interoceptive, and proprioceptive senses—are critical for interacting with the environment. When the sensory receptors in the nervous ...

Some people were allowed to taste and smell fat; some were only allowed to taste or smell fat, but not both (some were wearing nose plugs), and there was a control group that received no sensory ...