The sound of a fire alarm tells us to get out quickly to not get hurt, while the sight of a gas station sign can signal a ...

Sleep is one of life’s most universal behaviors. Despite its ubiquity, it’s also one of the most mysterious. Humans spend ...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Communications, reveals how rhythmic brain waves known as alpha ...

A gelatin memristor with 16 stable conductance states mimics biological pain perception, rating intensity, sensitizing after ...

Sleep may have evolved to help reduce DNA damage in nerve cells long before they became centralized in the brain, a study ...

Humans began sleeping as a way to partly help reduce DNA damage in nerve cells, scientists at Bar-Ilan University in Israel ...

Most of our experiences are multisensory, and involve lesser-known senses like proprioception and interoception.

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development ...

Robot skin that senses touch and pain — and triggers instant reflexes — makes robots more like humans. It probably also makes ...

Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life. Industrial environments overstimulate our stress systems and erode both ...

Abstract: Robotic systems start to coexist around humans but cannot physically interact as humans do due to the absence of tactile sensitivity across their bodies. Various studies have developed a ...

This valuable study shows that regions of the human auditory cortex that respond strongly to voices are also sensitive to vocalizations from closely related primate species. The study is ...