stimuli

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The work could help scientists create metallocene-based materials with adjustable or stimuli responsive properties, potentially leading to new advances in chemistry, materials science, and medicine.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

Set aside all the academic debates about how many words a young child should hear; parents’ job is to expose their kids to stimuli that expand their thinking.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

She had tried traditional therapy, as well as interventions like eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy, where a patient is asked to recall traumatic events while experiencing auditory, visual, or tactile stimuli.

From Slate • Dec. 18, 2025

Infected sea urchins became less active, moved in unusual ways, failed to respond to external stimuli, and eventually lost their flesh and spines before dying.

From Science Daily • Dec. 12, 2025

It was the lack of alternative stimuli that led me back to “Song of Myself,” the only certain gift I had from her.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green