Touch helps babies and toddlers learn self-awareness. The discovery could lead to interventions for kids with motor development delays.

An expert breaks down why affectionate touch can be so beneficial in a relationship, whether it's romantic or not.

A new wearable device uses touch to direct the wearer. It could help in navigation or be useful for people with vision or hearing problems.

Even without nerves, plants can sense when something touches them and when it lets go, according to new research.

A study in mice identifies a chemical messenger that carries signals between nerve cells that transmit the sensation known as pleasant touch.

A new way for people to receive tactile feedback in virtual reality uses the lips, mouth, and tongue. "It makes the experience much more immersive."

New research sheds light on how our brains combines external information and internal memory to build a sense of touch. An expert explains.

"This could allow you to actually feel textures, buttons, slides, and knobs on the screen.... you could feel the texture of fabrics and other products..."

Researchers are taking advantage of tiny hydra's transparency to learn how they sense touch.

Researchers have discovered a new law of physics that accounts of the friction that occurs when robots grip wet objects.