Pulling your hand away from a hot object, blinking because it's very bright or kicking when someone taps the tendon below your kneecap - these are all innate reflex actions. They happen rapidly, you ...

Does watching someone else relieve a nagging itch spark the same impulse in you? A study in mice suggests contagious itching may have evolved as a reflex to protect animals from threats. Now, Chen and ...

The paper F. Li et al., “Sneezing reflex is mediated by a peptidergic pathway from nose to brainstem,” Cell, 184:3762–73, 2021. Qin Liu studies sneezing for a personal reason: her entire family ...