Words that make objects appear from thin air are generally the stuff of the magical worlds of Harry Potter or The Hobbit. But a new experiment has been shown that words can make objects easier to recognise…
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Haptic devices - objects that stimulate the sense of touch - should be used as early as possible by people with visual prosthetics…
Baby sharks stop moving in their eggs to hide from predators, researchers from the University of Western Australia have found…
Copper ions in our body may be the source of our sensitivity to sulphurous odours including skunks, bacteria and armpits…
New research into how the brain processes conflicting sensory signals has found that neurons have a way of applying the correct…
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