Just as firefly season lights up Pennsylvania fields, a new study led by Bucknell researchers is shining a light on an ...

New research suggests that our sense of taste and smell are actually linked through our tongue first and not our brain.

Using loopholes and fraud, brokers turn poverty in Bangladesh and demand for transplants in India into booming business.

Everything you think, feel, and do is controlled by your nervous system. Learn how it works and what kinds of things can go wrong.

Human Senses TV Programmes Programme 6 - Balance Monday 4 August 2003, 7-7.30pm, BBC One Balance is our true sixth sense - it enables us to sense how our bodies are moving around in the world and ...

The sense organs in the lung resemble the muscle spindles, giving a rhythmic discharge of impulses so long as the tissues are stretched.

There are five basic human senses: touch, sight, hearing, smell and taste. The sensing organs associated with each sense send information to the brain to help us understand and perceive the world ...

A mutant seedling revealed how plant tissues scatter incoming light, allowing plants to sense its direction and move toward it.

This overview of the organs in the body can help people understand how various organs and organ systems work together. Learn more here.