Your skin is smarter than it may seem. Rather than just gather data on touch, skin actually helps process that information, researchers say.

Not touching your face is a simple way to protect yourself from COVID-19, but it's not easy. Here's how to break the habit.

"...when someone loses a hand, we found both 'hand areas' of the brain—left and right—become dedicated to the remaining healthy hand."

In a new virtual reality game, players have to use their sense of smell, touch, and heat to succeed.

A new tactile display aims to make 3D modeling accessible to people who are blind and visually impaired.

New augmented reality software lets users view virtual objects through their phones and then pick them up with their hands.

A robotic gripper's gentle grasp could make it a safer coworker on an assembly line, say researchers.

A new electronic skin may one day give robots and prosthetic devices a sense of touch that rivals the real thing.

"...when you have wires everywhere and the baby is tethered to a bed, it's really hard to make skin-to-skin contact."

Our ability to tell different textures apart is pretty sophisticated. New research gets us closer to understanding how it works.