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Sensation
A sensation if a feeling or perception that occurs when something comes into contact with the body. Sensations typically result from touching something physically during which time sensory organs, such as the eyes and ears, respond to the stimuli. Sensory organs include the eyes, ears, tongue, skin, and nose.
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MAR 11, 2016Genetics & Genomics
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WASHINGTON U. – ST. LOUIS (US) — In the past, good science has been used for unethical purposes, like eugeni ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)FEB 09, 2016Microbiology
Scientists have found traces of life in mantle rocks in core samples taken from the seabed near the famous Lost City hyd ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)JAN 21, 2016Videos
The ability to feel pain, while annoying most of the time, is actually a powerful evolutionary adaptation that's helps u ...JAN 18, 2016Videos
The macabre study of how bodies decompose is known as forensic anthropology. Experts in this field are often called upon ...DEC 21, 2015Neuroscience
Many people have trouble falling asleep or staying asleep. For some a glass of warm milk does the trick, or reading a ch ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimDEC 17, 2015Clinical & Molecular DX
The year 2015 has been a big year for transplants surgery and it will end with an even bigger splash. Doctors at the Joh ...DEC 06, 2015Clinical & Molecular DX
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Our society is becoming more and more mobile every year. With more demand for wireless internet access, increased amount ...Written By: Kara MarkerAUG 17, 2015Neuroscience
This week in North Carolina, UNC-Chapel Hill researcher Dr. Jason Yi made a connection between the UBE3A gene and autism ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUL 02, 2015Neuroscience
Why do teenagers take big risks? While conventional wisdom put the blame on a dopamine rush, it now appears that "the ad ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAY 22, 2015Genetics & Genomics
A group of scientists at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, have a achieved what they describe as a real ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 28, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Researchers at the Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montreal (IRCM) led by Artur Kania, Ph.D., uncovered the critical ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 24, 2015Neuroscience
The study looked at 10 healthy infants aged between one and six days old and 10 healthy adults aged 23-36 years. Infants ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 23, 2015Neuroscience
The power of invisibility has long fascinated man and inspired the works of many great authors and philosophers. In a st ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeAPR 22, 2015Neuroscience
Lips are the most exposed erogenous zone, which makes kissing feel very good.
Written By: Robert WoodardAPR 21, 2015Technology
For example, short, sharp bursts of air to the area around the thumb, index finger and middle part of the palm generate ...Written By: Robert WoodardAPR 21, 2015Neuroscience
The brains of babies 'light up' in a very similar way to adults when exposed to the same painful stimulus, a pioneering ...Written By: Will HectorMAR 12, 2015Genetics & Genomics
For the first time, researchers have found the chronic, incurable skin condition rosacea has genetic factors.
Written By: Judy O'RourkeMAR 10, 2015Neuroscience
Participating in an 8-week mindfulness meditation program appears to make measurable changes in brain regions associated ...Written By: Will HectorSEP 19, 2014Neuroscience
A study at the UCLA School of Nursing concluded that what may be damaging the brain in people with the sleep disorder is ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 15, 2014Immunology
Itch, scratch, itch scratch. It can be a vicious cycle. Everyone's been bothered by some form of itch, but we usually kn ...Written By: Peter MicheliAUG 01, 2014Neuroscience
A therapy that combines salmon fibrin injections into the spinal cord and injections of a gene inhibitor into the brain ...APR 08, 2014Neuroscience
Sensations of a gentle touch may sound like a lyric in a love song or a movie coming soon to your local theater, but it ...
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