Ryan Dalton
Polydactylism: Six fingers and toes may be better than five
In a thrilling paper published recently in Nature Communications, researchers set out to study the abilities of people with extra fingers. This condition, known ...
What’s that smell? How our brains detect and cope with all the odors we encounter
Olfactory neurons in your nose have evolved some 400 odor receptors, and each neuron contains only one. Receptors are tuned ...