When you see a bag of carrots at the grocery store, does your mind go to potatoes and parsnips or buffalo wings and celery?

New technology that allows zoo animals and their human visitors to share experiences could have positive benefits for both, ...

Electroreception, the ability to sense electric fields, is a fascinating trait found in species like sharks, bees, and ...

The somatosensory system consists of the peripheral receptors and neural pathways through which the nervous system detects and processes information about touch (mechanoception), pain (nociception ...

While it is easy to think of weapons when you think of military systems, truly, the heart system of every military is its ...

Your reaction times can reveal a surprising amount about what's going on inside your body, from your brain health to your risk of an early death.

Long the backbone of electronics, semiconductors are finding new uses in the development of electronic noses and tongues.

Scientists develop lab-grown model of the human sensory pathway to investigate how pain signals are transmitted to the brain.

Researchers have recreated the human ascending sensory pathway in a lab dish, using organoids that model the key brain and ...

From a pinprick to a warm breeze, every sensation you perceive begins its journey along this ascending sensory pathway. For the first time, scientists have recreated the entire human nervous system’s ...

Karl Koehler builds inner ear and skin organoids from human stem cells to model their development in health and disease.

Researchers have developed a method that shows how the nervous system and sensory organs are formed in an embryo. By labeling stem cells with a genetic 'barcode', they have been able to follow the ...