These sample pages of sensory receptors were created by 6th grade science students at Redwood Middle School in California. Each page explains a different type of receptor with the human body and ...

Dan Berkowitz might never have noticed the phenomenon if not for the new lights. In 2012, Johns Hopkins University’s Berkowitz had just moved to a lab space where the lights were motion-activated, and ...

The discovery of microbial-sensing proteins called Toll-like receptors is transforming our ... TLRs are not limited to the recognition of ten different PAMPs. In fact, many ligands with distinct ...

"For vision and hearing we have dedicated sensory 'organs' like the eyes and ears, with temperature we rely on specialized ...

The passage of time is sensed, perceived, and experienced, but—unlike for touch, vision, hearing, and olfaction—there exist ...