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If our body is moving, but our brain can’t work out why, this creates some internal confusion.
Motion sickness occurs when there is a conflict between what your eyes see and what your inner ears sense about motion.
Smoother and quieter, the car of the future comes with one nauseating hitch.
Motion sickness results when your senses report conflicting information to your brain that it can’t reconcile based on its expectations about how the world works.
There’s still a lot we don’t know about motion sickness – but the balance system seems to play a big role.
If you ever felt nauseous, fatigued or disoriented after using your phone or computer, you may be experiencing a condition similar to motion sickness.
Got motion sickness? You’re not alone in the animal kingdom.
Motion sickness can make you feel pretty wretched. But there are a few things you can do to try and prevent it, or to treat it once it takes hold.
New anti-sickness technology is needed for driverless cars to deliver on the promise of letting us read, work or watch films while we travel.
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