Ever bitten into a hot pie, yelped "Hothothot!" then had your taste buds go on strike for the next week? Taste buds are a sensitive bunch. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news ...

It’s no big secret that people have different taste preferences. Some of us gleefully devour arugula salads for lunch, while others won’t touch greens unless they’re baked and smothered in cheese (and ...

Taste buds are specialised sensory organs that facilitate the detection of chemical stimuli, ultimately guiding dietary preferences and enabling protective reflexes. Composed of distinct cell types – ...

Discover the biology and evolution behind why humans naturally dislike bitter tastes, yet often grow to love foods like IPAs, ...

In Robin Dando's lab, several mice chowed down on a specialized diet designed to make them as fat as possible. "I can say the mice are happy. They love this unhealthy diet, and pretty fast they get ...

Your brain has a built-in mechanism designed to prevent you from eating too much of any single food, but modern eating habits have found ways to outsmart this ancient protection system. The result is ...

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