As lovers might vouch, complex nuances of touch, including nearness sans physical contact and gradations of tactile pressure, convey a rich sensory experience and multi-dimensional cognitive pursuits.

If you had to rank the most powerful sense, which would you choose? Over 88 percent of participants in a 2016 survey ranked vision as their most important sense, followed by hearing in a distant ...

Scientists with the Bao Research Group at Stanford University have created a new electronic skin that can mimic the sense of touch. The "e-skin," as some refer to it, is detailed in a new study ...

Our findings show that when we see someone being touched, our brains quickly interpret what that touch might feel like. This ...

You don’t know what you got till it’s gone. Those who call themselves “huggers” have potentially been without for months now — and there’s good reason why that might be impacting their mental health ...

In a heartfelt plea for human connection, a Black woman’s emotional Instagram video has gone viral, shedding light on the crippling effects of “skin hunger.” This is a new concept to many, perhaps, ...

Digital touch has lagged behind progress in audio and video. New device, called VoxeLite, is first to accurately match the ...

A team of researchers from the City University of Hong Kong, South University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, and Carnegie Mellon University of Pittsburgh, have published a Science Robotics ...