Our human senses have evolved over millions of years to detect information important to our survival. Through a sense of ...

Touch and taste? It's all in the ... "We're now trying to look at other natural molecules that these animals might detect," Bellono said. This research was supported by the New York Stem Cell ...

Oh no! You dropped your keys on the ground, and it is too dark to see them. You might have to feel the ground with your hands ...

According to a book on the neuroscience of smell, "Olfaction in Animal Behaviour and Welfare" (CABI, 2017), olfactory research lags behind studies investigating vision, hearing, taste or touch ... the ...

How octopuses ‘taste’ things by touching. Unique nerve cells found in the animal’s suckers can detect prey’s defense chemicals ...

June 12 (UPI) -- Researchers have developed a robotic skin that can give robots a similar feeling to human touch. Researchers ...

Harvard researchers found that octopi use a family of specialized cells called chemotactile receptors to “taste” using their sense of touch when employing their arms.

In animals that can detect magnetic fields, he explained, the sensors are located inside the body, not on the surface. What he did find is a diverse collection of "mechanoreceptors:" nerves that ...

Many marine animals, including octopuses, have olfactory organs that probably detect water-soluble chemicals and possibly some poorly soluble ones.

Crocodile jaws are ten times more sensitive to touch than our own fingertips.In still water, a crocodile can detect the vibrations of a wildebeest drinking from 20 metres away Crocodiles have the ...

The myth derives from the belief that birds can detect human scent. Actually, birds have relatively small and simple olfactory nerves, which limit their sense of smell.

Though NOMPC is not found in mammals like us, the new structure gives scientists a better understanding of the subtle machinery that may allow our own sensory cells to detect touch. In particular, the ...