Touch—the first sense to develop in the womb—is fundamental to our bodily experience and our everyday lives. Yet, as the least studied of the five senses, it remains somewhat mysterious at the ...

Establishing forests can capture carbon and boost biodiversity — but some biomes are a better bet than others, a recent study ...

A team led by HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow Shan Meltzer has created a detailed, cell-by-cell map of the spinal cord that offers a new framework for understanding chronic pain and provides a powerful new ...

Japan is an archipelago with diverse climate zones and complex topography that is prone to heavy rain and flooding. Add the ...

The team suspected that “these birds were wild-caught in the rainforest, transported alive across the Andes, and kept in ...

Dr. Ted Goudge, a Shenandoah native and retired Associate Professor of Geography at Northwest Missouri State University, has ...

Introduction Tungiasis is a highly neglected tropical disease of the skin caused by an embedded female sand flea affecting ...

The research group led by Craig Wheelock at the Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM) has recently enhanced its ...

Ever wondered what the odds are that you'll experience a tornado in your area? If you simply examined a map of all the ...

A single flat metalens now handles both excitation and fluorescence collection for diamond quantum sensors, enabling ...

Arousal fluctuates continuously during wakefulness, yet how these moment-to-moment variations shape large-scale functional connectivity (FC) remains unclear. Here, we combined 7T fMRI with concurrent ...

Nearly one in three freshwater fish species now faces possible extinction, a statistic that reflects mounting pressure on ...