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 ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2025.240152, discusses how multi-photon bionic skin ...

This wireless, conformable interface enables sensory substitution ... nerve-cell endings in human skin respond to different mechanical forces to understand these receptors’ interactions with ...

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 ...

The team's experiments reveal that high-frequency mechanical vibrations picked up by ultra-sensitive mechanoreceptors in the skin called ... has placed these receptors in different locations ...

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

In a study published in Cell, a research team led by Zhu Shujia from the Center for Excellence in Brain Science and ...

When the sensory receptors in the nervous system malfunction ... would likely require a different intervention than a child who finds bright lights to be overstimulating. What is the best ...

What if you could detect allergens even better, so that before you even put something in your mouth, you knew whether it was dangerous? And what if frogs could help you do it?