Through two striking examples, people with no connection to the subjects of their dreams seemed to predict the future.

Dan Berkowitz might never have noticed the phenomenon if not for the new lights. In 2012, Johns Hopkins University’s Berkowitz had just moved to a lab space where the lights were motion-activated, and ...

Brain Receives electrical impulses from sense organs, processes them and transmits electrical impulses to glands and muscles to make appropriate responses Heart Pumps blood to the body tissues and ...

We might have big brains and fancy gadgets, but some animals are wired with senses straight out of a sci-fi script. We're ...

Scientists found that fruit fly larvae can sense electric fields, adding them to a list with sharks, bees, and even the ...

Electroreception is a kind of "sixth sense" found in some aquatic animals. Sharks and rays use an organ called the ampullae of Lorenzini, named after the Italian scientist who discovered it in 1678.

And by spreading their highly specialized sensory organs over their wide, mallet-shaped head, they can more thoroughly scan the ocean for food. One group of sensory organs is the ampullae of ...