Scientists are studying the “sixth sense” that humans have after the NIH grants $14.2 million in funding Humans interact with ...

For generations, schoolchildren have been taught that humans navigate the world with just five senses: sight, hearing, smell, ...

The five senses are familiar to us: sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell. Amelia Chapman says we should add at least two more to the list: proprioception and vestibular sense. Proprioception relates ...

When a person is at rest, meditating or reading a book, the parasympathetic nervous system is at work. Also known as the "rest and digest" system, the parasympathetic nervous system is responsible for ...

When a person thinks, speaks, eats, walks, or just sits comfortably with all bodily systems functioning normally, the billions of cells that make up the brain and the rest of the nervous system are ...