Mapping the Sense of What’s Going On Inside

Scientists are learning how the brain knows what’s happening throughout the body, and how that process might go awry in some ...
Science Daily

Fishy Sixth Sense: Mathematical Keys To Fascinating Sense Organ

Biophysicists in Germany are leading an effort to develop and apply models of the so-called lateral-line system found in fish and some amphibians. This sensory organ enables an animal, even in murky ...
The New York Times

The Sense Organs of Plants

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
The Harvard Crimson

Lecture on Human Sense Organs

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 ...
JSTOR Daily

Sense Organs on the Antennal Flagellum of a Bird Louse (Mallophaga)

Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Vol. 84, No. 3 (Sep., 1976), pp. 159-165 (7 pages) From 25 to 30 sense organs are present on each antennal flagellum of a female bird louse, ...
Nature

The Sense Organs of Insects

LITTLE is definitely known from the physiological point of view of many of the sense organs of insects. Except in the case of the eyes and the tactile hairs, it is largely a matter of conjecture to ...
The Scientist

What Sensory Receptors Do Outside of Sense Organs

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 ...
Nature

Has birds’ mysterious ‘compass’ organ been found at last?

Multiple lines of evidence suggest that pigeons sense magnetic fields by detecting electric currents in their inner ears.