Bumps and lines make up touch-based technology such as Braille. But the human sense of touch is keen enough to detect differences that are much smaller. Research by Charles Dhong and his group at the ...

There’s a nightmarish scene in Guillermo del Toro’s 2006 movie Pan’s Labyrinth in which we are confronted by a sinister humanoid creature called the Pale Man. With no eyes in his monstrous, hairless ...

Plants lack nerves, yet they can sensitively detect touch from other organisms. In the Venus flytrap, highly sensitive sensory hairs act as tactile sensing organs; when touched twice in quick ...

Parents might be familiar with their toddlers gotten messy with flour. Feeling the soft texture of flour, kids can spend the whole time and create, explore and learn through the messy play. Such ...

Without a sense of touch, Frankenstein’s monster would never have realized that “fire bad” and we would have had an unstoppable reanimated killing machine on our hands. So be thankful for the most ...

SAN DIEGO, March 23, 2022 — Our eyes may be windows on the world, but our fingertips put us in touch with it. To recreate this tactile sense, current technology relies on tiny motors and electricity.

Discover how manufacturing breakthroughs, rising demand, new applications, and strategic partnerships are set to ...

I visited the Tokyo Toy Show in late August. Amid all the lavish booths set up by toymakers, one small, unassuming stand ...

A research group reports a rather surprise finding as to how GABA works to control the tactile sense. GABA, known for its inhibitory function, actually enhances the sensory input processing by ...