Your brain can play tricks on you with colors. Learn what red, blue and yellow can do to your appetite. Science Trek is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple ...

Have you ever wondered why some foods taste better on a plane, or why a small stone seems to weigh more than another, larger one, even though they weigh the same? What we experience is based on a much ...

Have you ever wondered why certain smells trigger childhood memories? What about how your body can navigate in the dark? Researchers at the University of North Texas Health Fort Worth want to unpack ...

We all know that sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell are the five human senses, but really they’re just the beginning. There are things like proprioception, the sense of orienting your body in space ...

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 ...