Researchers Puzzled by a Group of People Missing a Brain Structure to Smell but Are Still Sniffing Odors Comfortably It's ...

But in the piriform cortex, a brain region associated with olfaction, they also found a neuron that increases firing in response to both the smell of licorice and the images of a piece of licorice ...

The Show's ANALOGS series is about people who make things by hand — and what those things tell us about those people.

Losing our sense of taste can be a symptom of ageing, but it can also be a sign of other conditions such as menopause, injury, a virus or the early stages of disease ...

5 They performed brain surgery on a locust and inserted electrodes into the brain regions that process smell. Saha’s team then collected gas samples from the cell cultures of three different types of ...

The receptors send signals to the octopus’s brain about the molecules. That’s how an octopus tastes with its legs! If the wind is blowing in the right direction, a bear can smell a dead animal from 20 ...

A surgical operation normally carried out to correct a blocked nasal passage may help patients who lost their sense of smell ...

There’s something profoundly appealing about watching the creation of food and dishes — the centerpieces of our culture and ...

But smell perception is a complex process, and understanding the underlying mechanism that connects odor perception to the hypothalamus—the brain region that controls appetite, cravings, and metabolic ...