More than 5 million people in the United States are affected by limb loss or paralysis. Technological devices that directly interact with the brain, known as brain-computer interfaces, offer the ...

Researchers have uncovered a key role for a new type of cell in touch detection in the skin of the fruit fly. Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have uncovered a key role for a new type of ...

The following is the first part of a series on brain-machine integration and biomechanical solutions to restore function to tissues damaged by disease, trauma, or time. Researchers have developed ...

As we interact with the world, we feel it when we touch things. The information we get from touch sensations helps us carry out many daily activities, from typing on a keyboard to handling food.

For millions of people, losing their sense of smell quietly reshapes daily life. Meals lose nuance, familiar places feel ...

Researchers have identified a specific neuropeptide and a neural circuit that transmit pleasant touch from the skin to the brain. The findings eventually may help scientists better understand and ...

UD Engineering’s Laure Kayser received a Beckman Young Investigator award to support her research on assistive soft robotics and tactile displays The University of Delaware’s Laure Kayser, assistant ...

Dirty Latte is a doubleshot poured directly onto cold milk the espresso on the surface and cold milk at the bottom making it hot and cold at the same time, so the espresso itself is more prominent in ...

Studying mice, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a neural circuit and a neuropeptide - a chemical messenger that carries signals between nerve cells - ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have uncovered a key role for a new type of cell in touch detection in the skin of the fruit fly. Touch allows animals to navigate their environment by ...

image: Mice engage in grooming behavior, experiencing a phenomenon researchers call pleasant touch. Researchers from the Washington University Center for the Study of Itch and Sensory Disorders have ...