Meet ammonium chloride! And as Liman explains, the more we learn about new bodily functions, the more we learn about our ...

Dan Berkowitz might never have noticed the phenomenon if not for the new lights. In 2012, Johns Hopkins University’s Berkowitz had just moved to a lab space where the lights were motion-activated, and ...

Taste buds are the cells on your tongue that allow the brain to perceive different tastes, but the receptors are found within ...

It may not look like much on the surface, but it has millions of tiny sense receptors underneath. There are all sorts of sense receptors down there with different jobs to do. Some can detect the ...

To measure touch more accurately, she plans to shrink the size of the sensor so that it can process additional pressure points, similar to the millions or sensory receptors of human skin.

Our senses of smell and taste detect chemicals in the environment as they bind to receptors on the olfactory epithelium in the nose or on taste buds studding the mouth. From these two inputs, plus a ...

How do cells forming organs or repairing tissues know when to stop growing? Adhesion receptors act as molecular fingertips that sense the environment and then coordinate behaviors.

Sweet taste receptors in the heart: A new pathway for cardiac regulation New research shows that the heart can sense sweeteners and can increase the force of heart muscle contraction in response ...