Your brain receives and processes information from sense organs such as your eyes, nose, and ears. And it sends signals to your body that let you do what you want, like moving and talking.

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 ...

Electroreception is a kind of "sixth sense" found in some aquatic animals. Sharks and rays use an organ called the ampullae of Lorenzini, named after the Italian scientist who discovered it in 1678.

The transformation of a simple piece of epithelium - the otic placode - into a sensory organ of extreme morphological complexity provides an opportunity to study questions of competence, induction, ...