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- 1From:Science News (Vol. 190, Issue 10)Like Marvel's surly superhero Luke Cage, naked mole-rats are seemingly indestructible, nearly hairless creatures that are impervious to certain kinds of pain. This last power has puzzled researchers, because like other...
- 2From:Science News (Vol. 153, Issue 2)Ah, the sweet smell of ... meat? For one group of investigators, the odor of success is octanal, a molecule that most human noses perceive as a meaty smell. In the first case where a specific odor and its mammalian...
- 3From:Natural History (Vol. 116, Issue 5)Homing pigeons and other birds can sense the Earth's magnetic field, an ability that helps them find their way home, even when home is hundreds of miles away. But how this magnetic sense works remains one of the most...
- 4From:The Hearing Review (Vol. 14, Issue 11)A 30-year scientific debate over how specialized cells in the inner ear amplify sound in mammals appears to have been settled more in favor of bouncing cell bodies rather than vibrating, hair-like cilia, according to...
- 5From:Science News (Vol. 171, Issue 2)Researchers have tracked down a pair of genes that, together, seem responsible for some insects' ability to sense carbon dioxide. Because mosquitoes detect the gas to home in on their next blood meal, a means to block...
- 6From:Science News (Vol. 137, Issue 20)Sweet and bitter: Common origins? The tongue senses at least four discrete tastes: sweet, sour, salty and bitter. Scientists have assumed that taste buds discriminate among these using highly specific receptors, each...
- 7From:Women's Health WeeklyA new study, "Estrogen effects on pain sensitivity and neuropeptide expression in rat sensory neurons," is now available. "While a number of chronic pain conditions are much more prevalent in women than men, the role of...
- 8From:The Hearing Review (Vol. 14, Issue 11)In a study published in the September 6 issue of Nature, researchers have shed new light on the hearing process by identifying two key proteins that join together at the precise location where energy of motion is turned...
- 9From:Child Life (Vol. 77, Issue 6)Dear Dr. Cory: I was wondering, how do we feel an itch? Nicki Hillman Colfax, Wisconsin Dear Nicki: Every part of your skin has nerve cells. These nerve cells make it possible for you to feel different...
- 10From:Science News (Vol. 152, Issue 19)For people with painful memories of biting down on a chili pepper or touching the side of a boiling pot, it's probably cold comfort that scientists have discovered a cell surface protein that links the two burning...
- 11From:Psychology Today (Vol. 44, Issue 5)WE ALL EXPERIENCE the world differently. But could the variability in our sensory perception contribute to the broad spectrum of human personalities? It seems that our senses, which dictate how we perceive and interact...
- 12From:Technology Review (Cambridge, Mass.) (Vol. 102, Issue 4)Brain implant is something that should not even be considered if the sanctity of the body's inner core is respected. For a damaged inner ear and a healthy auditory nerve, hearing can be restored through a cochlear...
- 13From:Science News (Vol. 180, Issue 11)Like birds of a feather, nasal molecules that respond to pleasant smells flock together, keeping their distance from sensor molecules that pick up unpleasant smells. Sensor molecules, or receptors, appear to be...
- 14From:Life ExtensionSensory nerve fibres can detect changes in temperature over a remarkably wide range, a process that has been proposed to involve direct activation of thermosensitive excitatory transient receptor potential (TRP) ion...