A Rutgers professor studying the sense of touch and its role in movement, socialization and pain perception has been awarded ...

In the womb a foetus is thought to experience touch before it can hear, smell or taste. As the pregnancy progresses, twins even reach out to touch each other. After birth we know that “kangaroo ...

Making sense of touch 2mo M ADHYA PRADESH: In an era marked by rising sexual offences against women and children, especially girls, a traffic police subedar Yogesh Singh Rajput in Madhya Pradesh ...

It was like reaching back in time and making contact with my hand that I no longer had. “When I touch an object, I get a little tiny tingling, a little buzzing, if you will, in that part of my ...

It has been held that human beings must learn how to see, and that they are taught by the sense of touch. New experiments demonstrate, however, that vision completely dominates touch and even ...

But, robots have not yet been able to have a sense of touch - could this be about to change? This video is from BBC Click, the BBC’s flagship technology programme. David Attenborough tells the ...

This story appears in the September 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. One man, one robotic arm, dozens of electrodes—these are the elements of a breakthrough experiment that’s ...

It works across vision and touch in humans, apes, monkeys and rats. Dolphins can visualise objects that they echo-sense, and some fish can build up a picture based on their electric sense.