Studies show that holding hands can reduce pain and buffer stressful experiences. But its impact on brain activity suggests something more profound is going on.

Holding hands is a common part of many relationships, but why do we do it? Experts explain the science of hand holding.

As with many people in neuroscience, I have a deeply personal first-hand knowledge of the vicissitudes of some neurons doing something wrong in a loved one's brain.

Feeling is believing: Bionic hand 'knows' what it's touching, grasps like a human Pioneering prosthetic hand carefully conforms and adjusts its grasp to avoid damaging or mishandling whatever it holds ...

Human Hands Hold the Fate of These Fragile Birds A Dutch shelter rehabilitates birds that have fallen victim to the hazards of urban living.

Our hands perform thousands of complex tasks every day – can artificial intelligence help robots match these extraordinary human appendages?

Holding an egg in his palm, this man experiences a once-in-a-lifetime moment as a baby snake hatches right in his hand. The tiny reptile slowly emerges, taking its first breath and revealing the ...

Nino Mbath, a traditional healer from South Africa, was arrested after he brought human body parts to a police station in August 2017.

Using light-conductive materials, researchers have built a robot hand that can sense shapes and textures. Soft robotics holds promise for better prosthetics or machines with a more "human" touch.

A GROTESQUE prediction of how the human hand could evolve to more efficiently operate a smartphone has been devised with help from new research.

Scientists have unearthed the oldest modern-looking hand bone from a human ancestor at a site in Africa, demonstrating that features we take for granted, like the ability to grip, go much further ...