“Giving sight to the blind when they hear my math.”
-Amadeus the Stampede
Massachusetts General Hospital researchers have used gene therapy to restore useful vision to mice with degeneration of the light-sensing retinal rods and cones, a common cause of human blindness. Their report describes the effects of broadly expressing a light-sensitive protein in other neuronal […]

Animal Magnetoreception
Magnetic sensing, perhaps because it is a type of sensory perception inaccessible to humans, has long captivated the human imagination. Over the past 50 years, scientific studies have shown that a wide variety of living organisms have the ability to perceive magnetic fields and can use information from the earth’s magnetic field in orientation […]