Old things evoke nostalgia, identity, and emotional continuity. Their stories, imperfections, and endurance help us feel ...

A finger moving across dry sand meets resistance that the eye cannot see. The sand shifts in ways too small for conscious measurement, yet something in the hand registers the change. Beneath the ...

A specific pattern of brain activity in a frontal brain region is linked to compulsive behaviors like excessive hand washing, chronic hair-pulling, and skin-picking in people with obsessive compulsive ...

Wade’s painstaking embroidery uses colour and shape, squares and oblongs, bordered thickly by deep black lines, to fashion a mesmerizing whole. The undulating pattern of the different panels recalls ...

Elephants use their trunks much like a human uses their hands: to pick up food and manipulate objects. A new study finds that tiny, specialized whiskers on elephant trunks help them do it.

Some people may form emotional attachments to items because they meet a need. If you kept a stuffed animal from childhood, it ...

A controversy brewed on Friday when Sweden’s men’s curling team accused Canada’s Marc Kennedy of breaking rules for how he ...

Double touch violations during Olympic curling matches in Milan have led to heated exchanges and calls for video replay.

Our brains truly are fascinating.