Scientists are learning how the brain knows what’s happening throughout the body, and how that process might go awry in some ...

For more than a century, medical students have memorized the same map of the human body, confident that every major structure ...

Scientists are reframing what it means to “feel” the world, revealing that our fingertips host a subtle sense that lets us ...

The five established senses are sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. Each of these has specialist organs that send ...

Scientists are creating the first neural atlas of interoception, the body's internal communication system, to understand how the brain and organs stay in sync. This groundbreaking research, funded by ...

A small ultrasound sticker, worn on the skin, can monitor the stiffness of organs deep inside the body. The sensor could detect signs of disease such as liver and kidney failure, and the progression ...

Multiple lines of evidence suggest that pigeons sense magnetic fields by detecting electric currents in their inner ears.