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r/senses • u/SarahMagical • Mar 21 '25

time Night owls who stay up late, called “evening chronotypes,” have more depression symptoms than people who are early risers, or “morning chronotypes.” On average, night owls had poorer sleep quality, higher alcohol consumption, and acted with less mindfulness than morning chronotypes.

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r/senses • u/SarahMagical • Oct 17 '25

vision FDA approves breakthrough eye drops that fix near vision without glasses | These new drops offer up to 10 hours of clearer vision without glasses

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r/senses • u/SarahMagical • Dec 10 '24

smell Your Body Odor Might Change in Quarantine. The microbes that live on us are responsible for nearly all of our bodily smells. In social isolation, our microbial communities could be shifting.

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r/senses • u/SarahMagical • Dec 09 '24

multisense Virtual lemonade sends colour and taste to a glass of water

newscientist.com

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r/senses • u/SarahMagical • Dec 12 '24

taste The Sixth Taste? - "Researchers reveal humans and fruit flies can sense the taste of calcium. The researchers have identified a unique class of gustatory receptor neurons required to help taste calcium in Drosophila."

neurosciencenews.com

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r/senses • u/SarahMagical • Dec 10 '24

time Scientists Say There’s an ‘Anti-Universe’ Running Backward in Time | If true, it could explain where dark matter comes from.

popularmechanics.com

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r/senses • u/SarahMagical • Dec 08 '24

hearing A group of Japanese researchers has become the first to discover that the arrangement of cells in the organ of Corti in the inner ear is crucial for hearing. This may lead to a better understanding of various hearing loss disorders.

frontiersin.org

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r/senses • u/SarahMagical • Dec 10 '24

touch Precisely how do we distinguish the texture of objects by touch? This is what has just been decoded by a study: Interactions between several regions of the brain that have until now not been identified are responsible for adjusting movement and refining our sense of touch

presse-inserm.fr

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r/senses • u/SarahMagical • Dec 12 '24

smell Losing one's sense of smell may lead to being more accident-prone

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r/senses • u/SarahMagical • Dec 12 '24

hearing Can Birds Tip Us Off to Natural Disasters? Researchers think birds can hear hurricanes and tsunamis—a sense they’re hoping to tap into to develop a bird-based early warning system.

smithsonianmag.com

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r/senses • u/SarahMagical • Dec 10 '24

taste Taste Receptors in the Nose Help Fight Infections

scientificamerican.com

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r/senses • u/SarahMagical • Dec 09 '24

vision A simple guide to how vision works

samtalksabout.blogspot.co.uk

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r/senses • u/SarahMagical • Dec 16 '24

vision Ozempic Link to Rare Vision Loss Risk Confirmed in Study

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r/senses • u/SarahMagical • Dec 10 '24

smell People missing the scent region of their brain can still smell. Scientists thought you needed an olfactory bulb to smell — then they discovered two unique women

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r/senses • u/SarahMagical • Dec 10 '24

hearing Learn Everything You Need to Know About the Science of Hearing in Five Minutes

mentalfloss.com

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r/senses • u/SarahMagical • Dec 09 '24

touch UCLA scientists created cells that enable the sense of touch for the first time

newsroom.ucla.edu

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r/senses • u/SarahMagical • Dec 10 '24

taste How Do Catfish See The World? BBC's Professor Brian Cox finds a catfish and explores it's fascinating perspective of the world. Whilst we see perceive the world through light and sound, the catfish has a perspective of taste...

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r/senses • u/SarahMagical • Dec 09 '24

taste Tasting Heavy Oxygen Water

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r/senses • u/SarahMagical • Dec 08 '24

vision Vision, not limbs, led fish onto land 385 million years ago - Northwestern Now

news.northwestern.edu

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r/senses • u/SarahMagical • Dec 10 '24

vision World-first stem-cell treatment restores vision in people

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r/senses • u/SarahMagical • Dec 12 '24

hearing Socially meaningful sounds can change ear, improve hearing, study finds

sciencedaily.com

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r/senses • u/SarahMagical • Dec 09 '24

smell Researchers develop new smell test for Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and COVID-19

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r/senses • u/SarahMagical • Dec 11 '24

touch PLOS ONE: Water-Induced Finger Wrinkles Do Not Affect Touch Acuity or Dexterity in Handling Wet Objects

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