To the ancient greeks, the chimera was a ferocious creature—part lion, part goat, and part snake. The first chimera that Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte ever created, in 1992, was considerably less ...
Professor G. H. Parker S.B. '87, professor of zoology, will deliver the first of his course of eight Lowell lectures on "The Human Sense Organs and Their Evolution," in Huntington Hall, 491 Boylston ...
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Scientists may have found a new organ in the human head
For more than a century, medical students have memorized the same map of the human body, confident that every major structure ...
Your nose may be more powerful than you think. In a single sniff, the human sense of smell can distinguish odors within a fraction of a second, working at a level of sensitivity that is “on par” with ...
It is a question that feels like it should have a straightforward answer: how many senses do humans have? Growing up, most of us learned that there are five main senses – sight, smell, hearing, taste, ...
People sense millisecond shifts in odor as quickly as they might spot a change in color, new research shows. The study discounts the notion that smell is a "slower" sense than sight or hearing, ...
ABOUT ten years ago, Alexey Bogoslavsky and Krikor Kekcheyev in Moscow and Alexander Dolin in Leningrad, working independently, demonstrated experimentally that the sensitivity of the human sense ...
*Each year, Wired publishes a 132-page standalone magazine (and app) in which our expert writers forecast the year ahead. Here's a sneak preview of the Wired World in 2014 -- from bitcoin fraud to the ...
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