For generations, schoolchildren have been taught that humans navigate the world with just five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. Modern neuroscience is now challenging that tidy list, ...

Examples often include proprioception, which helps you know where your limbs are without looking, and the vestibular sense, ...

Our human senses apparently don’t stop at five—as recent research shows, we may have over thirty. Most of our experiences are ...

We perceive the world through our five senses—our eyes, ears, skin, nose, and mouth are all receptors. Everything that comes into the brain enters through one of these doors. Because most of us take ...

Stuck in front of our screens all day, we often ignore our senses beyond sound and vision. And yet they are always at work. When we’re more alert we feel the rough and smooth surfaces of objects, the ...

A dream about a butterfly in ancient China triggered debates about perception and reality for over two millennia. Source: Calvin Mano / Unsplash During the warm summer months in ancient China, the ...

Human innovation may alter how we see, hear or even perceive reality, but it will not undo the deepest truths of faith. Ecclesiastes reminds us, “There is nothing new under the sun” (Eccl. 1:9). Every ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

Barry Smith has received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for his research on multisensory experience, which underpins the creation of this exhibition on the senses, Stuck in ...

We discovered how aircraft noise interferes with our perception of taste and why you should always drink tomato juice on a plane. While our perception of salt, sweet and sour is reduced in the ...