Human + : Le futur de nos sens

Touch is an invisible force in human nature. Not only does it perceive small elements that the eyes cannot see, but its role is also vital in our lives. It influences our physical and cerebral capacities and our well-being. Today, touch is undergoing a real revolution. Science has pushed back its natural limits thanks to technological…

Thanks to digital technologies, scientists who study the sense of sight are taking us into a new era! They are now able to explain some rare phenomena such as the case of a person who can see 99 million more colors than people with normal human vision, or to restore sight to someone who had lost it. It is biotechnology and digital…

As the mysteries of hearing begin to unfold, technology and scientific research are cooperating to restore, replace or augment this extremely powerful human sense. Hearing endows some individuals with super powers... Like this young man whose hearing is almost absolute, capable of turning every sound into music. Or this blind man who…

Smell... as natural as breathing. 16 times a minute you inhale air that passes through your nose and fills your lungs. Billions of molecules travel through your nasal passage and are captured by the cells of your olfactory organ. But you think you don't have a great nose... Your sense of olfaction is however much more developed…

The brain contains just over 100 billion neurons, each of which can form up to 10,000 connections. It takes such a network to process the flow of information sent by the body's sensory receptors. Because at every moment of existence, all your senses are solicited. Life is multisensory. Sight, touch, hearing, taste, and smell send…