Stuck in front of our screens all day, we often ignore our senses beyond sound and vision. And yet they are always at work. When we’re more alert we feel the rough and smooth surfaces of objects, the ...

Some of the traditional senses are combinations of several senses. Touch, for instance, involves pain, temperature, itch, and ...

We don’t experience the world through neat, separate senses—everything blends together. Smell, touch, sound, sight, and balance constantly influence one another, shaping how food tastes, objects feel, ...

The chemical senses, olfaction and gustation, are crucial for survival. They allow us to identify food sources, detect potential dangers like spoiled food or toxic gases, and even play a role in ...

Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B. C. V5A 1S6, Canada, and Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B. C. V5A ...

Version of Record: This is the final version of the article. Mackie and colleagues compare chemosensory preferences between C. elegans and P. pacificus, and the cellular and molecular mechanisms ...

Revised: This Reviewed Preprint has been revised by the authors in response to the previous round of peer review; the eLife assessment and the public reviews have been updated where necessary by the ...

This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (22071037 and 22201054), the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB36000000), and the ...

Recent advances in virtual reality technologies (VR) have accelerated the foundation of flawless 3-dimension virtual worlds. Alongside visual, auditory, haptic, and olfactory sensations, taste ...

The interface, dubbed ‘e-Taste’, uses a combination of sensors and wireless chemical dispensers to facilitate the remote perception of taste – what scientists call gustation Scientists have devised a ...

Scientists have devised a novel technology, which intends to redefine the virtual reality experience by expanding to incorporate a new sensory connection -- taste. The interface, dubbed ‘e-Taste’, ...

The interface, known as ‘e-Taste,’ integrates sensors and wireless chemical dispensers to enable the remote perception of taste, or gustation. These sensors are designed to detect molecules such as ...