Researchers investigate the neurological signals behind itchy eyes in rodents and their corresponding scratching behavior. Anyone suffering dry skin, eczema, or insect bites will know the unpleasant ...

A team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania has inserted human neurons into the brains of rats with damaged visual cortices, New Scientist reports, a Frankensteinian experiment that had ...

An optical illusion that plays with our perception of brightness also seems to work on rats, suggesting that the connection between perception and pupil size evolved early on in mammals. The Asahi ...

Anyone suffering dry skin, eczema, or insect bites will know the unpleasant effects of itchy skin. While the physiological mechanisms behind itching sensations on the skin are well understood, ...