Biologist Kathy Willis spoke to Live Science about how touching wood makes us calmer, why looking at a picture of a savanna is calming and how walking through a forest changes our gut microbes.

In the brain, smell and sight are closer friends than we thought New research explores the many ways our sensory experiences overlaps, teaching us new ways the brain perceives ...

Let's do five, cinco, activities, actividades, to learn more about our five, cinco, senses, sentidos. I have in front of me three items that a friend has put in front of me.

Find out which types of extracurricular activities are best for kids and how they can help their overall health from improved self-esteem to better physical fitness.

There are five basic human senses: touch, sight, hearing, smell and taste. The sensing organs associated with each sense send information to the brain to help us understand and perceive the world ...

The sense of smell is highly influenced by the cues from other senses, while the sense of sight and hearing are affected to a much lesser extent, shows a new study.

Sight is probably, for most people, their most valued sense, though musicians and chefs may privilege hearing and taste. The blind will value other senses. Sight is the hegemonic sense, but its ...

Humans have sophisticated senses that have been well-developed over time. We have an excellent sense of sight — thanks to retinal photoreceptors (rods and cones). We also have a strong sense of ...