
Brain
Warning! Nicotine poses special risks to teens
Even a single dose of nicotine during early teen years can start a life-long cycle of nicotine use and addiction.
Even a single dose of nicotine during early teen years can start a life-long cycle of nicotine use and addiction.
A panda may stand out among bamboo at the zoo, but in the wild, its black-and-white coloring camouflages it from predators. Learn more with this web comic.
Zones that offer each passenger personal listening are closer to reality. A new design improves performance by adapting to the conditions in your car.
Scientists and engineers are trying to add touch to online shopping, virtual doctor appointments and artificial limbs.
David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian found nerve-cell sensors for temperature, pain and pressure.
Haptic is an adjective used to describe things related to our sense of touch.
Squirrels navigate through trees by making rapid calculations. They have to balance trade-offs between branch flexibility and the distance between tree limbs.
Songbirds could detect north and south using a protein in their eye. It works somewhat like a compass.
Patterns of human eye movement help explain why particular sets of stars form iconic shapes, a high school student showed.
From the moment you are born, cells called neurons sense information, process it and then pass it on. Neurons allow you to do everything that you do.