The cochlea is the spiral-shaped structure within the inner ear responsible for our sense of hearing. To fully understand hearing functions and open the door to new hearing loss treatments, scientists ...

New research suggests pain is not a simple signal of injury but a process that unfolds across nerves, spinal cord, and brain.

One confounding factor in how someone views a video is something psychologists have dubbed “slow-motion bias.” In one 2016 ...

Bats use echolocation to get around, but it wasn’t clear how these creatures managed to navigate dense environments—until now ...

Biologists and engineers have joined forces to build a new robot bat that’s helping us understand how real bats use ...

Koch, who studied vision, thought that by measuring people's brain responses as they looked at special optical illusions, ...

If you’re looking for a chia seed ocean sensory bin that feels cool, squishy, and straight-up mesmerizing, this ocean version ...

Understanding how the brain creates conscious experience remains one of science’s most difficult challenges. Brain scans and ...

Inside Michigan Tech's Aging, Cognition and Action Lab, space debris rains down on a screen as players scramble to deflect it ...

The nervous system does an astonishing job of tracking sensory information, and does so using signals that would drive many computer scientists insane: a noisy stream of activity spikes that may be ...

Winter means a lot of indoor time, and I've learned that science experiments are a lifesaver on those long, cold days. The best part? You don't need anything fancy. Baking soda, vinegar, food ...

Two papers challenged the existence of theorized particles called sterile neutrinos that might account for mysteries like the cosmos’s dark matter. By Kenneth Chang Just how many types of neutrinos ...