The discovery of a rapid pain-signaling system challenges our current understanding of pain

Researchers develop the optoPAD, a system that creates "virtual taste realities"

Study shows how healthy people can sometimes misattribute touch to the wrong side of their body, or even to a completely wrong part of the body

Despite being a key driver of the acceptance or rejection of foods, researchers point out that oral texture perception remains poorly understood relative to taste and smell

The dryness sensation, also known as astringency, refers to a puckering or rough feeling in the mouth upon drinking wine

With so much morphological variety, bats represent an opportunity to learn what types of evolutionary forces shape the shapes of animals

Identification of functional olfactory receptors in human taste cells opens doors to new approaches to modify food flavor

Scientists develop a robust experiment that shows human brain waves respond to changes in Earth-strength magnetic fields

Researchers located the taste center using functional magnetic resonance imagingand a new method of statistical analysis