There are certain smells that conjure a specific time or place for me. That scent that comes with an electrical storm takes me to the New Hampshire lake where I used to spend summers as a child. The ...

For the first time, scientists have discovered that smell and taste are inseparable much earlier in the brain than we thought. New research shows that odors can actually be coded as tastes in the ...

“The first six weeks of a decreased sense of smell or taste are critical for diagnosis and treatment,” Michaelson says, so it ...

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 ...

When battling a cold, everything feels compromised—energy levels, breathing patterns, sleep quality and especially the sense of taste. That steaming bowl of chicken soup or favorite comfort food might ...