Have you ever wondered why some foods taste better on a plane, or why a small stone seems to weigh more than another, larger ...

People's perceptions and their interpretation of the world are known to often be influenced by their expectations and past ...

Why do we avoid getting our hopes up? I suggest that this is because affect is attached to our meaningful goals, as ...

A study in the Journal of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Bosnia and Herzegovina associates aging with the decline in proprioception function. A decline in proprioception can change the joint ...

Proprioception, the innate ability to perceive body positions and movements, enables us to perform daily activities without thinking about it. In mammals, this process primarily involves the ...

A decade ago, at age 55, Don Lewis suffered a stroke in his sleep. When he woke up, he couldn’t move his left arm or leg. Lewis’ neighbor realized his truck hadn’t moved in two days and called 911 for ...

Have you ever stumbled on uneven ground (or even ground) but somehow caught yourself before you fell? That’s proprioception, your body’s built-in GPS. It’s your body’s ability to sense where it is in ...

Update: A minibus spending package passed by the House of Representatives on January 8, 2026, effectively cancels the Mars Sample Return program by eliminating almost all funding for future missions.

The sickest aspect of Wednesday’s assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk is that it was everything he always warned about, the very thing that motivated his many debates and catapulted ...

In the absence of information from the visual system, balance is guided by only two of the three afferent systems. If there is no early stimulation of these systems, blind children tend to become ...

An ancient vase depicting the death of Talos, the bronze automaton created by the god Hephaestus to guard the island of Crete ArchaiOptix via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 “May not machines ...