Tag: cochlea
Your Designed Body: Hearing Is a Symphony of Parts
The human ear can detect sound when the eardrum is displaced by as little as one-tenth the diameter of a single hydrogen atom.
Note to Thomists: The Ear Is a Reverse Piano
James Hudspeth, of Rockefeller University, just won the Norwegian Academy of Science’s Kavli Prize in science.
Some Proteins Act Almost Like Humans
We know they are just molecular machines, but some proteins appear to have uncanny abilities to sense a situation and make decisions.
“Remarkably,” Odor Code Just Doubled
Olfactory receptors squeeze more data out of odor molecules than previously thought.