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The Monell Chemical Senses Center’s rich portfolio of research on sweet taste goes back a long way: Monell scientists were… Read More »Sweet taste receptor affects how humans metabolically handle glucose
Research from Uppsala University and the Karolinska Institute could pave the way for a prosthetic hand and a robot to… Read More »The sense of touch of robots and prosthetic hands could be as fast as that of humans
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Using a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it experiment, researchers at Trinity College Dublin have found that individuals differ widely in the speed at which… Read More »I spy with my quick eye: Scientists discover that the speed of visual perception varies widely in humans
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