Scientists create mouse capable of perceiving infrared light [video]

A group of researchers at the Duke University Center for Neuroengineering in Durham (North Carolina, USA) produced what might be considered an "extra sense" mouse. Through an implant located in the area of ​​the brain responsible for touch, the animal became able to perceive infrared light.

According to the team, the same technique can also be applied for the detection of magnetic fields, radio waves and ultrasound - which may represent the first step in the development of new prosthetic technologies for humans.

"This was the first record in which a neuroprosthesis apparatus was used to enhance a function - allowing a normal animal to literally take a sixth sense, " said researcher Eric Thomson, a staff member at the center, in an interview with The Telegraph.

"Look, what a beautiful magnetic field!"

In fact, the same principle can be used to develop human neuroprostheses, which would allow us, for example, to see any range of the electromagnetic spectrum “or even magnetic fields”.

One can imagine that the ability to see magnetic fields would bring truly psychedelic experiences. However, from a more scientific (and also less 'traveled') perspective, it is to be imagined that humans with such 'vision' are capable of conducting experiments that are not even considered today.