Seeing a bird eat nectar from a flower is a common sight in our world. The ability to detect sugars, however, is not ancestral in the bird lineage, where...
Scientists have discovered a new population of taste cells that can detect multiple types of stimuli, including chemicals from different taste qualities.
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Highly purified heavy water has a distinctly sweeter taste than same-purity normal (light) water, according to a study conducted by researchers from the...
Symptoms of COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, typically include a dry cough, fever and shortness of breath. But evidence...
Genetic variants determine whether or not you can tolerate eating certain vegetables, according to new research.
TAS2R38 predicted lower consumption of...
Sour taste allows for the detection of hydrogen ions and organic acids. It is one of the five basic tastes and, along with other chemical and textural...
Though calcium taste doesn’t fit into the five established tastes the tongue’s receptors can identify, humans describe it as slightly bitter and sour....
According to a new study published in the Journal of Food Science, caffeine tempers taste buds temporarily, making food and drink seem less sweet.
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According to a new study published online in the journal BMC Neuroscience, taste receptors of felines respond in a unique way to bitter compounds compared...
An international group of genetic scientists led by Prof Jianzhi Zhang from the University of Michigan has found that penguins lost three of the five basic...
Neurobiologists from the United States and Japan have identified the location and genetic characteristics of taste stem cells on the tongue.
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