Today, we explore a UTSA lab where taste is the topic of the day. JULY 15, 2025 — Students working at The Macpherson Lab this ...

New research finds our tongues can ‘smell’ too — changing how scientists understand taste and opening doors to flavor ...

A graphene sensor trained by machine learning can now taste like a human, identifying both basic and complex flavors with ...

A team of researchers report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on a new graphene-based sensor design ...

"Your taste buds can kind of change and evolve as you age and some of that may be generic — your genes turning on and off," ...

Taste buds can get accustomed to strong flavors, such as salt, so tapering down over time can acclimate you to eating less sodium, Sauceda explained.

An electronic tongue that can replicate flavours like cake and fish soup could help recreate food in virtual reality, but can’t yet simulate other things that influence taste, such as smell.

Cave fish develop taste buds on their head and below their chin—and even in humans, taste cells grow in truly unexpected locations ...

These Fish Transformed Their Dorsal Fins Into Taste Buds From tasting to hunting to hitching a ride, some fins have evolved for a variety of uses beyond swimming ...

Biologists first learned that blind cavefish in Mexico grow extra taste buds on their heads and chins back in 1967.

Over thousands of years, cavefish evolved and lost their vision, earning the moniker “the blind cavefish,” but some cavefish also developed an inordinate number of taste buds on the head and ...