To investigate how the body's ability to sense head movements can contribute to balance control and guidance control--two critical aspects of bipedal locomotion--the researchers stimulated nerves that ...

A team of international scientists, including Hans Thewissen, an anatomist and paleontologist at the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine (NEOUCOM), has discovered that the inner ear of ...

Endothermy, or warm-bloodedness, is the ability of mammals and birds to produce their own body heat and control their body temperature. This major difference with the cold-blooded reptiles underpins ...

Surgeons have implanted a new prosthesis in four patients to correct disabling dizziness. The device may someday restore balance to hundreds of thousands more One day in 2009 Robert Milner (not his ...

Research involving “remote-controlled people” shows that the brain uses precise information about head movement and orientation to control walking direction and balance. The work could lead to new ...

Feb. 2 (UPI) --To hunt successfully, cheetahs must keep their head still and eyes focused on the movements of their prey while running at high speed. How does the fastest animal in the world do it?

Studying the way an animal moves by looking at its ears might seem like a poorly thought-out strategy. After all, short of watching it directly, most biologists would choose to look at more obvious ...