If the taste of kale makes you screw up your face, you are not alone: researchers have observed foetuses pull a crying expression when exposed to the greens in the womb. — Click here to read the full article....
Meet the flavourists – the people who bring together art and science to create the flavours in our food. Each crisp, soft drink, or toothpaste flavour has been concocted by someone in a lab who has spent years studying why things taste good. — Click here for...
Americans love their hot dogs, eating about 7 billion from Memorial Day to Labor Day, according to the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council. And Hulu’s hit show “The Bear” has not only sparked a great thirst for handsome line cooks, but it has also...
Imagine if there were foodie babies. These infants would offer nuanced critiques of breastmilk and strained peas, noting the layers of sweet and umami in applesauce. They’d request their squash and bananas gussied up with spiced honey and miso. They’d want Daniel Chang’s latest baby...
Speaking the language of food, Carmy honors Mikey in the only way he’s able: immersing himself in the smells, sizzles and flavors that remind him of better times, long ago, spent together. Grid spoke with two experts and two cultural cooks about the practice of remembering...
The annual Twins Day Festival draws siblings, and scientific researchers, from around the world. The festival offers a unique scientific opportunity for researchers to gather subjects with identical DNA in order to learn whether certain conditions are influenced by genetics or environmental factors. Researchers set up...
The doctor will sniff you now? Well, not on his or her own, but with a device that functions like a superhuman nose. You’ll exhale into a breathalyzer, or a sensor will collect “scent data” from a quick pass over your urine or blood sample....
Who hasn’t been guilty of scrolling through social on their phone while watching TV and trying to get some work done on their laptop? In other words, we’re all at screen overload. That’s part of the reason forest bathing—known as “shinrin-yoku” in Japan, where the...
Short Wave's host Aaron Scott talks to Danielle Reed from the Monell Chemical Senses Center about the controversy in taste science and about what other tastes might exist beyond sweet, sour, bitter, salty and umami. — Click here to listen to the full episode. ...
“I remember walking into my home with my father and brother, and as soon as we walked through the front door, they both said, ‘Ah, spaghetti for dinner.’ ” Kline said. “When I breathed in, all I got was warm air. I didn’t understand how...