New game takes virtual reality beyond sight and sound

In a new virtual reality game, players have to use their sense of smell, touch, and heat to succeed.

National University of Singapore • futurity
Oct. 30, 2019 ~4 min

‘E-glove’ gives prosthetic hands human touch and warmth

A new e-glove can help people with prosthetic hands feel pressure and temperature, while also giving prostheses the softness and warmth of real skin.

Chris Adam-Purdue • futurity
Sept. 4, 2019 ~3 min


Our breath gets mosquitoes looking out for blood

"Our breath is just loaded with CO2. It's a long-range attractant, which mosquitoes use to locate a potential host that could be more than 100 feet away."

James Urton-Washington • futurity
July 22, 2019 ~7 min

Brain differences in blind people may sharpen hearing

People who are blind tend to have a more nuanced sense of hearing. Two studies indicate what that looks like in the brain.

Kim Eckart-Washington • futurity
May 7, 2019 ~7 min

Lost sense of smell comes with higher death risk

Older adults with poor sense of smell have a 46% higher risk of death at 10 years, research finds.

Sarina Gleason-Michigan State • futurity
April 30, 2019 ~3 min

Is this how expecting a taste affects the brain?

Researchers are working to understand how anticipating something, like a taste, changes what's happening in the brain.

Gregory Filiano-Stony Brook • futurity
April 29, 2019 ~4 min

Team solves mystery of brain’s taste ‘sweet spot’

Where exactly in our brains we sense taste has been a mystery, but new research has the answer.

Cornell University • futurity
March 14, 2019 ~4 min

Neurons work together to form our sense of texture

Our ability to tell different textures apart is pretty sophisticated. New research gets us closer to understanding how it works.

Matt Wood-U. Chicago • futurity
Feb. 19, 2019 ~6 min


Your mouth helps you smell tasty foods

You might've heard that your sense of smell affects your sense of taste, but is it the other way around when it comes to food?

Lawrence Goodman-Brandeis • futurity
Feb. 11, 2019 ~5 min

Awesome mosquito hearing includes our voices

Scientists thought mosquitoes didn't have what it takes to hear over long distances. They were wrong, new research suggests.

Krishna Ramanujan-Cornell • futurity
Feb. 7, 2019 ~5 min

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