During a tour of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Corey Allard noticed something strange: fish ...

The bitter taste receptors we have on our tongues are also found in other organs, including the gut. A new study has ...

Chili peppers are famous for their heat. That fiery sensation on your tongue comes from compounds known as capsaicinoids.

Sight and sound are perhaps the biggest standouts. But there are also strange tales here of reindeer, shrimp, and a bug that ...

Its nose, fringed with twenty-two pink appendages, is covered with over 25,000 sensory receptors known as ... of a mouse under snow from a distance. Special feather adaptations enable them to ...

Scientists have discovered that juvenile bottlenose dolphins have specialized receptors for detecting ... previous assumptions about cetacean sensory systems. Unlike land mammals, dolphins and ...

Put simply, sensory nerves send impulses about what is happening ... Some nerves send signals associated with light touch, while others respond to deep pressure. Special pain receptors called ...

To investigate this, the team used a special mouse model in which the CB1-receptors of specific cells were turned ... of glial cells in plasticity and synaptic maturation of sensory circuits. Sign up ...

The ability of the sea robin to detect and dig out hidden food then led to the discovery that the fish's spindly legs were covered in sensory papillae, which similar to the tiny bumps on our tongues ...

Special receptor cells under the skin enable us to feel ... and are connected to the free nerve endings of sensory receptors that detect mechanical pressure. “We were surprised at the extent to which ...