Here’s how scientists make sense of our sensory organs. Ears capture sound from the outside world with cartilaginous structures that protrude from your head, funnel it through a canal to a ...

Without otoconia, you wouldn’t be able to sense the linear acceleration of your body. These crystals stimulate hairlike cells found in two organs in your inner ear called the utricle and saccule.

The sensing organs associated with each sense send information to the brain ... works via the complex labyrinth that is the human ear. Sound is funneled from the outside, along a passageway ...

Scientists identified a hidden "sixth sense" in geckos that's upending up what we thought we knew about animal hearing.

Ear, nose and throat expert Andrew McCombe, of ENT UK, said the balance organs may be one of the many reflexes that ensures our blood is sent to where it is needed. "It makes sense that any organ that ...

Whether you are a human being or an insect, you rely on your senses to help you navigate and survive in your world. But what drives this essential sensing? Unsurprisingly, animals move their sensory ...

Picture a cat swiveling its ears to capture important sounds without needing to move its body. But the precise position and orientation these sense organs take over time during behavior is not ...

"It's not just that it describes a different quality of reality, but also that in place of just two eyes or ears this sense is fed by many discrete lateral-line organs – from 180 in the clawed ...