How do leeches find their hosts? We explore how leeches sense heat, chemicals, and movements in their environments.

Ant societies are built on scent. Pheromones guide the insects to food, warn them of predators, and regulate the rhythms of their colonies. This chemical communication system is governed by a simple ...

Wombat noses and whiskers don't just make them adorable. Both are unique sensory organs essential for navigation, foraging ...

In recent years, researchers have highlighted the presence of sensory receptors in unexpected areas of the human body. In lung tissue, for example, taste receptors cause the airways to relax in the ...

Olfactory receptors are integral to sensory perception, forming a sophisticated system that enables organisms to detect and differentiate an immense variety of volatile chemical compounds. As members ...

Taste and smell are so intimately connected that a whiff of well-loved foods evokes their taste without any conscious effort. Now, brain scans and machine learning have for the first time pinpointed ...

New therapeutic approaches to resolve persistent pain are highly needed. We tested the hypothesis that manipulation of cytokine receptors on sensory neurons by clustering regulatory cytokine receptor ...

Scientists studying the clonal raider ant have now discovered how this works: each neuron activates one odor gene while ...

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 ...

Polyphenols, abundant in fruits, vegetables, tea, and coffee, offer potential health benefits. However, owing to low bioavailability, the mechanisms underlying their beneficial effects remain unknown.