Scientists believe that your taste receptors are meant for taste, but how do they explain the taste receptors on your lungs?

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In honor of some lesser-known marvels of the female body, we bring you a list of five strange capacities and capabilities of the feminine form.

A bitter taste has always been considered a warning signal, devoted to protecting us from ingesting potentially harmful ...

The orange juice that many people like to drink with breakfast is naturally high in sugar. But it also contains citric acid, ...

Jess Loren remembers loving the taste of Cap'n Crunch cereal. Coca-Cola. Snickers bars. But now, instead of a sweetness, "they taste bland," she says. Flavors are noticeably muted since she started a ...

Could “fatty” or “starchy” one day become accepted as the sixth basic taste alongside the likes of sweet and salty? In recent years, scientists have proposed a few contenders for a sixth taste that ...

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 ...

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“I want what I want when I want it.” This tune, from a popular song more than a century ago, captures something timeless about human desire. Cravings feel immediate, even irresistible: the feeling ...

Odds are you’ve eaten cilantro recently. Cooks sprinkle the green leaves on tacos and guacamole or mix them into curries, Pad Thai and many dressings and sauces. In these recipes, cilantro adds a ...