Curated Video
What it's like to have no sense of taste or smell
Taste and smell problems affect about 10 to 15 million people in the US. Though traditionally dismissed by doctors as a minor problem, taste and smell disorders can pose a serious risk — and we're just starting to understand how to treat...
Curated Video
The Impact of Anosmia: Tasting Without Smelling
In this video, we explore the condition of anosmia, the loss of the ability to perceive smell. We learn how anosmia can affect our sense of taste and conduct an experiment using jelly beans to demonstrate the connection between taste and...
SciShow
Brain Hacks to Make Your Food Taste Better
It’s common knowledge that our sense of taste is tied to our sense of smell, right? But our brains are complex and taste is also tied to our senses of touch, sight, and even hearing.
Curated Video
The Science of Taste
This video explores the fascinating process of how we taste and experience flavors. It delves into the role of taste buds, the connection between taste and smell, and how our brain evaluates and reacts to different flavors. It also...
Curated Video
The Science of Taste: Exploring the Wonders of our Tongue
In this video, the teacher explains the importance of the tongue and its role in our sense of taste. They discuss the basic tastes our tongues can detect, the number of taste buds in our body, and how taste and smell work together to...
The Royal Institution
Simulating Tastes and Smells Using a Digital Lollipop - with Danielle George
We can use technology to send sounds and images to people far away – but what about our other senses? In this clip from the 2014 CHRISTMAS LECTURES "'Sparks will fly: How to hack your home", Danielle George demonstrates a device for...
Crash Course
Taste & Smell: Crash Course A&P
Hank resists the urge to devour a slice of pizza so that he can walk you through the way we experience our major special senses. It all boils down to one thing: sensory cells translating chemical, electromagnetic, and mechanical stimuli...
Curated Video
Anxiety, Stress and Altered Taste - The Science Behind Stress Eating
Stress has been linked to a number of physical and psychological conditions, but did you know it can also affect the way we taste food? In this video, we explore how stress can impact our sense of taste, and what this means for our...
TED Talks
TED: Why smell matters more than you think | Paule Joseph
TED Fellow and chemosensory researcher Paule Joseph unveils the hidden power of a sense that's too often overlooked: smell. She delves into the science behind smell — from how it evokes memory and emotion to its potential for early...
SciShow
The Taste of Color
To the average tongue, the color "red" doesn't have a flavor or a smell. But color can affect how we perceive the world in so many ways - including how things taste and smell!
Visual Learning Systems
Senses: Taste and Smell
Whether it is the sight of colorful flowers, or the smell of freshly baked cookies, our senses are constantly at work. Breathtaking video footage and three-dimensional animations illustrate how complex sensory organs function. Special...
Neuro Transmissions
How Do We Smell?
What is that smell? It smells like an old factory. Oh wait, nope, itês just your olfactory system. We canêt neglect one of our more scent-sitive senses. Our sense of smell not only gives us the ability to distinguish different odors, it...
Curated Video
The Power of Smell in Taste and Perception
In this video, we explore the fascinating connection between smell and taste. We learn that smell accounts for a significant portion of how we perceive flavor, with estimates ranging from 70 to 80%. We also discover how our sense of...
Curated Video
Taste buds
The tongue is covered in taste buds that allow us to taste lots of different flavours. Living things - Our senses - Taste and smell Learning Points Our taste buds are located on our tongue. Taste buds allow us to distinguish different...
Curated Video
The Senses
We make sense of the world around us through touch, smell, sight, taste and sound. But what are these senses and how does the body and brain process them? Biology - Being Human - Learning Points. Our senses detect information from our...
Let's Tute
Why Do We Lose Smell and Taste During Cold?
In this video you can clearly learn about the significance and dependence of smell and taste how it is related to each other. Topics coverres are 1. What happens when a person gets cold 2. What causes cold? 3. What is Anosmia 4. How...
Next Animation Studio
What are the symptoms of the new coronavirus?
According to a report from the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, anosmia, the loss of smell; hyposmia, a reduced sense of smell; and dysgeusia, the distortion of the sense of taste, should be added to the list of...
Wonderscape
The Power of Imagery in Poetry
Imagery is a fundamental element of poetry that engages the five senses—sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell—to create vivid mental pictures. Langston Hughes' Harlem and Robert Hayden’s Those Winter Sundays exemplify the power of...
Clarendon Learning
Five Senses for Kids | What are the five senses? Sight, Sound, Smell, Taste, and Touch
In this five senses for kids video we will answer the question, "What are the five senses?" which are the sense of sight, sense of taste, sense of sound, sense of smell, and sense of touch. These senses can vary between individuals so we...
Curated Video
Animals & Their Senses - How Animals Process their World
This fun, comic book-style animation showcases that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways. Learners will explore the...
Curated Video
4 Amazing Science Facts about Pregnancy
Pregnant women go through a lot to bring a baby into this world: 2 a.m. food cravings, hypersensitivity to certain smells and morning sickness, not to mention labor and delivery. In honor of Mother's Day, our latest video highlights the...
World Science Festival
Terminating Zika virus by altering mosquito DNA
Female mosquitoes transmit diseases like the Zika virus, but they have to find someone to bite first. That involves a variety of genes that control the mosquito's senses of taste and smell, along with a host of other behaviors that help...
Curated Video
The Importance of Smell and Taste
This video discusses the importance of our sense of smell and taste in our daily lives and how their loss can impact our overall well-being. It explores various causes of impaired smell and taste, ranging from age-related decline to...
Curated Video
The Power of Smell
This video discusses the impact of smells on our emotions and how our sense of smell is closely linked to taste. It also includes two experiments that demonstrate the connection between smell and taste, as well as the ability to...