A dog’s sense of smell is nothing short of extraordinary. While humans primarily rely on sight to understand the world, dogs use their noses to navigate, communicate, and gather information. In ...

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.

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 ...

It's time for any edition of The Science of Sense, RTÉjr Radio's six-part series for children all about (you've guessed it) our senses. In this episode Professor Bumbledumm is joined in the ...

With their sight removed from the equation, the restaurant’s patrons are forced to rely more on their other senses -- especially touch, smell and taste -- to provide them with information.

How do some animals survive in their world when they don't have all five senses.

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.

Trilobites A Hair-Raising Hypothesis About Rodent Hair A new paper posits that the guard hairs of rodents and other small mammals may help sense the heat of predators, though more research is needed.

By helping restore sight to blind children in India, Project Prakash founder Pawan Sinha, SM ’92, PhD ’95, is also able to study how the brain learns to see.

The sense of touch allows us to make a better connection between sight and hearing and therefore helps adults to learn to read. These results should improve learning methods, both for children ...