From the Indiana University press release via MedicalXpress: At a Bloomington, Ind., toy store, kids ages 8 to 12 gather weekly to trade Pokemon cards and share their mutual absorption… Read more »
From the UC San Diego Health Sciences press release via ScienceDaily: Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the VA San Diego Healthcare System have… Read more »
From the University of Southampton press release via EurekAlert!: As the nights draw in and the temperature begins to drop, many of us will be thinking of ways to warm… Read more »
From the Washington State University press release via EurekAlert!: Scientists and business people have known for decades that certain scents—pine boughs at Christmas, baked cookies in a house for sale—can… Read more »
From the University of Leicester press release via EurekAlert!: Psychologists from the University of Leicester have carried out unique eye tests to examine reading styles in young and old people… Read more »
From the Weizmann Institute of Science press release: You can see the color white; you can hear white noise. Now, Weizmann Institute researchers show that you can also smell a… Read more »
From the Cell Press press release via EurekAlert!: Areas of the brain in blind people can learn to process visual input through the use of sound, even after years or… Read more »
From the Weizmann Institute of Science press release: Rats use a sense that humans don’t: whisking. They move their facial whiskers back and forth about eight times a second to… Read more »
From the Duke University Medical Center press release via ScienceDaily: While studying the sense of touch, scientists at Duke Medicine have pinpointed specific neurons that appear to regulate perception. The… Read more »
From the Cell Press press release via EurekAlert!: The whiskers of newborn rats twitch as they sleep, and that could open the door to new understandings about the intimate connections… Read more »
