Taste and smell are so intimately connected that a whiff of well-loved foods evokes their taste without any conscious effort. Now, brain scans and machine learning have for the first time pinpointed ...

Polyphenols, abundant in fruits, vegetables, tea, and coffee, offer potential health benefits. However, owing to low bioavailability, the mechanisms underlying their beneficial effects remain unknown.

Researchers studying clonal raider ants have uncovered how each sensory neuron manages to express just one odorant receptor gene from a library of hundreds.

Our sense of smell seems to be the most complicated, and as such it’s the least understood. To help shed some light on the system, researchers at Rockefeller University have taken the first ...

Sweet and spicy is a culinary pairing that's found in cuisines around the world — here's why the two flavors work so well together.

All senses must reckon with the richness of the world, but nothing matches the challenge faced by the olfactory system that underlies our sense of smell. We need only three receptors in our eyes to ...

How do leeches find their hosts? We explore how leeches sense heat, chemicals, and movements in their environments.

Researchers found that a Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) A1 stimulant, 2-methylthiazoline (2MT), act as a potent insect repellent in Drosophila. 2MT induces aversive behaviors via olfactory, ...

An international team of researchers has addressed a field that has received little attention so far: how do beneficial gut microorganisms perceive their environment? Led by Prof. Dr Victor Sourjik, ...

Researchers at Leipzig University and Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg have investigated a previously unknown ...