A new study shows that humans possess a form of “remote touch,” allowing them to detect hidden objects in sand before making direct contact.

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

Humans can detect buried objects without touching them, sensing faint pressure ripples in sand. This seventh sense is called ...

In a first, scientists believe they have confirmed we have another sense – a “remote touch” that we share with others in the ...

For the first time, a new seventh sense has been studied in humans. It is called “remote touch,” which is the ability to ...

Scientists are learning how the brain knows what’s happening throughout the body, and how that process might go awry in some ...

Sliman Bensmaia didn’t always want to be a neuroscientist. While studying computer engineering and cognitive science as an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, he planned to graduate quickly ...

On most mornings, Jeremy D. Brown eats an avocado. But first, he gives it a little squeeze. A ripe avocado will yield to that pressure, but not too much. Brown also gauges the fruit’s weight in his ...