Neuro Transmissions
How Do We Taste?
You know how babies put everything in their mouth? Theyêre actually exploring with taste! Thanks to our gustatory system, we can detect millions of distinct tastes through combinations of our different taste receptors, kind of like how...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Supporting Emotional Wellbeing in Children: Calming Your Mind
Follow along with a quick video to learn the skill, Mindfulness 5-4-3-2-1. Young learners practice mindfulness to focus on themselves and their surroundings and calm their nerves. A narrator takes viewers through each step.
Be Smart
What If You Never Forgot Anything?
What would life be like if we never forgot anything? Challenge scholars to imagine the possibilities using a video from an extensive science playlist. Content includes how memories form, why forgetting is essential to learning, and what...
American Chemical Society
Why Do Things Taste Sweet?
Our love of sweets can be traced back to our cavemen ancestors! The chemical makeup of sweet foods creates a strong source of energy in our diets. Glucose, sucrose, and fructose all have similar chemical structures that create the tastes...
PBS
The Science of Taste
Neuroscientists and biologists study how we process our senses and the impact our receptors have on our food choices. The video, part of a food science series from PBS, highlights the nerves used in eating including the taste and...
Bozeman Science
LS1D - Information Processing
Too much information? How does an organism process all of the sights, sounds, smells, and feelings it receives from its environment? Discover new ideas for presenting Next Generation Science Standard LS1D, Information Processing, in a...
Deep Look
If Your Hands Could Smell, You’d Be an Octopus
An octopus' tentacles are more like sticky, multipurpose tools than the simple leg-like appendages we view them as. Discover their amazing abilities, times eight, in an entertaining video. The narrator explains the senses located in each...
Peekaboo Kidz
The Five Senses - The Dr. Binocs Show
Dr. Binocs shows viewers his bag of five senses! He explains how important our eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin are, and how they are related to our five senses.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Getting a Sense of How We Taste Sweetness
An interview with taste scientist Robert Magolskee about his research that found new paths for our bodies to experience the taste of sweetness. Aired Mar. 11, 2011 [15:22]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: How to Get More for Your Bite
An interview with Barb Stuckey, a food inventor and author of Taste What You're Missing, who talks about how to fully experience the taste of your food. Aired Mar. 9, 2012 [18:09 min]
PBS
Pbs Kids: Dragonfly Tv: The Show: Taste Test
Why does a stuffy nose affect our sense of taste? Who knows? PBS site follows Leah, Folabi and Julia as they attempt to answer this question by doing some of their own research.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Smell & Taste: Lesson 1
This lesson will describe how receptors allow you to detect smells and tastes and will describe the link between taste and smell. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Smell & Taste." [6:51]
Crash Course
Crash Course A&p #16: Taste and Smell
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...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Holiday Tastes and Smells
How do the smell and taste of food affect your mood during a holiday? Learn about the psychology behind these two senses. Aired Nov. 26, 2010 [7:57]