Cold does not feel the same on your fingertips as it does deep in your chest, and new research shows that this is not just a matter of intensity or imagination. Scientists have now identified two ...

Christian Lemon, Ph.D., an associate professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Oklahoma, often thinks about temperature sensation and the brain when eating a chilled mint ...

Brain freeze — the sharp, seconds-long headache we get from ingesting something cold — is rooted in the way our brain senses temperature and blood flow. Few sensory experiences are as immediately ...