The smallest control system of vision in mammals has been mapped -- a discovery that opens entirely new insights into how our vision works and how it can be affected by disease.

Researchers have recreated the human ascending sensory pathway in a lab dish, using organoids that model the key brain and ...

New research highlights how the brain’s own chemistry can suppress pain, explaining why severely injured individuals, like WWII soldiers, sometimes feel little discomfort.

Scientists develop lab-grown model of the human sensory pathway to investigate how pain signals are transmitted to the brain.

The visual system is the part of the central nervous system that is required for visual perception – receiving, processing and interpreting visual information to build a representation of the ...

Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a ...

Neuropathic pain, defined as pain caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory nervous system, does not act as a signal to warn the body of damage as acute pain does, and thus it does not have a ...