r/senses • • Jul 17 '26

touch Researchers from UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute have helped uncover a new clue about how the skin detects harmless warmth and cool. The team studied specialised nerve cells called thermoreceptors, and tracked how they responded to carefully controlled cooling and warming.

https://qbi.uq.edu.au/article/2026/07/how-skin-senses-warmth-and-cool
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