Tag: Senses
Do you hear what I see? How blindness changes how you...
Ione Fine, University of Washington and Woon Ju Park, University of Washington
Almost nothing in the world is still....
What causes motion sickness? Here’s how to reconcile the mismatch in...
James Phillips, University of Washington
My first experience with motion sickness was as a college student, standing on the...
Do dogs really see in just black and white?
Nancy Dreschel, Penn State
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If...
A taste for sweet – an anthropologist explains the evolutionary origins...
Stephen Wooding, University of California, Merced
The sweetness of sugar is one of life’s great pleasures. People’s love for sweet is so visceral, food...
Nocturnal dinosaurs: Night vision and superb hearing in a small theropod...
Lars Schmitz, Scripps College; Jonah Choiniere, University of the Witwatersrand, and Roger Benson, University of Oxford
Today, barn owls,...
Do dogs really see in just black and white?
Nancy Dreschel, Pennsylvania State University
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
Synthetic odors created by activating brain cells help neuroscientists understand how...
Edmund Chong, New York University
When you experience something with your senses, it evokes complex patterns of activity in your brain. One important goal in...
What’s lost when we’re too afraid to touch the world around...
Chunjie Zhang, University of California, Davis
During one of my daily walks with my toddler, when we passed his favorite playground, I noticed a new...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
