The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a new type of nonopioid painkiller from Vertex Pharmaceuticals, NBC ...

Artificially engineered biological processes, such as perception systems, remain an elusive target for organic electronics experts due to the reliance of human senses on an adaptive network of sensory ...

Researchers from Northwestern and Georgia Tech developed an organic electrochemical neuron that fires at human-like ...

Ever dig into a bowl of Sichuan-style food and experience an unexpected tingling sensation? That's the Sichuan peppers, and ...

The advance from a team with Professor Tobin Marks and research assistant professor Yao Yao could enable perceptual ...

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An international research team concludes that gentle touch is not only good for mental health, but also for the evolution of cooperation.

An illustration of the team's technology, which combines a bionic limb with brain implants to reproduce more complex sensations of touch. © Chalmers University of ...

But if you put on gloves that muffle your sense of touch, many of those simple tasks become frustrating. Take away proprioception - your ability to sense your body's relative position and movement ...