Scientists are reframing what it means to “feel” the world, revealing that our fingertips host a subtle sense that lets us ...

A set of experiments reveals that humans' just be perceiving the minute displacements caused in sand can detect an object ...

The five established senses are sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. Each of these has specialist organs that send ...

The complexity, and importance, of our sense of touch is huge. Just think about reaching out for a piece of fruit on the table – you need touch to know when your fingers have reached, you need to ...

Touch is a mechanical sense, detecting physical stimuli such as pressure, texture, stretch, vibrations and flow. Touch receptors come in a variety of forms — special cells, often housed in bumps or ...

Now, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a new type of touch-sensitive technology that helps a ...

Even before we are born and begin experiencing the sensations of daily life — a soft shirt on our arms, for example, or a hard tabletop under our fingertips — humans begin to form the senses needed to ...

Researchers at the University of Chicago, the University of Birmingham, and Bournemouth University have uncovered evidence that physical embodiment can occur without the sense of touch, thanks to a ...

How does your body know where your limbs are when you are not looking at them? How does it sense when it is time to go to the bathroom or whether a touch is soothing or painful? All these abilities ...