They've ruined missiles, silenced communications satellites and forced nuclear power plants to shut down. Pacemakers, consumer gadgets and even a critical part of a space shuttle have fallen victim.

The exact purpose and mode of function of the numerous thick whiskers which seals have on their faces has long fascinated marine biologists, but has ultimately remained a mystery – until now. In the ...

Like a finely tuned harp, the whiskers on a rat's snout pick up particular frequencies and send these teensy signals to the brain. Now scientists have caught the whisker signals on video. With poor ...

Northwestern Engineering researchers have developed the first full, three-dimensional (3D), dynamic simulation of a rat’s complete whisker system, offering rare, realistic insight into how rats obtain ...

Alyx Milne, 27, combines her work at Blackpool Zoo with her MSc studies at Manchester Metropolitan University Get daily headlines and breaking news alerts for FREE by signing up to our newsletter We ...

This important study combines optogenetic manipulations and wide-field imaging to show that the retrosplenial cortex controls behavioral responses to whisker deflection in a context-dependent manner.

Among the many reasons humans are bizarre among mammals (the dearth of body hair, the bipedalism, the fact that someone invented the turducken) is a sad shortcoming: You and I don’t have sensory ...