It took just 72 hours for me to lose my sight entirely. Just before my blindness hit, I had been laid up with an unknown virus that had left me suffering severe headaches and sweats. My body’s immune ...

Ever caught a whiff of the color blue? Or tasted a symphony? If that sounds completely bonkers to you, you’re in the majority. But for a small slice of humanity, these cross-sensory experiences are ...

Synesthesia is a neurological condition in which information meant to stimulate one of your senses stimulates several of your senses. People are usually born with the condition, but some people ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ever since I can remember, numbers have appeared to me in specific colors. The number 2 is baby pink, 3 is sunshine yellow, 4 is ...

Science achieves a lot of grand things: It transforms our lives with vaccines and clean water, identifies our closest relatives among the primates and shows us that the continents move. But sometimes ...

Neuroscientists at Emory University have found that people who experience a mixing of the senses, known as synesthesia, are more sensitive to associations everyone has between the sounds of words and ...

When you hear words containing the letter P, is the taste more like coffee or peaches? When you think about the month of November, do you see bright red or a deeper shade of blue? And what sort of ...