Dolphins have specialized receptors to detect fatty acids in mother's milk, aiding in assessing nutritional value of food.

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Discover how the brain quickly adapts to changing rules and behaviors. A fascinating study reveals the neural feedback loop that helps us stay flexible in a dynamic world.

The human brain filters trillions of sensory inputs down to just 10 bits per second, a cognitive bottleneck shaped by ...

With funding from the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA), the Coffee Science Foundation (CSF) and the and the Zurich ...

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Compelling opportunities also exist in therapeutic biomedical systems for substituting or augmenting sensory input 4 in individuals with sensory impairments. Augmented-reality and virtual-reality ...

A new electrical stimulation therapy for spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) has shown promise in reactivating motor neurons and ...

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Boosting communication between the spinal nerves and the muscles using the spinal cord stimulation reverses spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) progression and could be applied to other motoneuron diseases, ...

Artificially engineered biological processes, such as perception systems, remain an elusive target for organic electronics experts due to the reliance of human senses on an adaptive network of sensory ...