Ever bitten into a hot pie, yelped "Hothothot!" then had your taste buds go on strike for the next week? Taste buds are a ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - Brad Spakowitz is a man of good taste. He moves on from talking about bones in 3 Brilliant Minutes ...

Q: Can you explain how taste buds work? A: Who says that there’s no accounting for good taste? Sure you can! One person’s idea of a heavenly good taste is another’s unpleasant experience. We all have ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Some taste cells are multitaskers that can detect bitter, sweet, umami and sour stimuli, a new study finds. The research challenges conventional notions of how taste works. In the past ...

A biologist studies blind cavefish, a species of fish that dwell in cave ponds in Mexico. He looked at the timeline for when the cavefish develop additional taste buds on the head and chin, finding ...