A groundbreaking study of 7,000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef ...

A hydrogel-based hand was poked, prodded, burned, and slashed to help robots 'feel.' Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday.

Hendrickson, created by Rantautype Studio, is an elevated handwriting font that oozes class. The elegant typeface is ...

In an increasingly digital world, the sense of touch is often the first casualty. While visuals and sound have become highly ...

A new prosthetic hand offers strength, grasps objects with control, and detects textures, coming the closest yet to mimicking human touch. It significantly outperforms traditional prosthetics ...

Deeper layers detect pressure: the texture and weight of a heavy dumbbell, for example. In 2018, the team behind the new study developed electronic skin inspired by human skin. ... The new design ...

Fast food isn’t limited to just human cravings anymore. Plenty of chains have picked up on the fact that dogs tag along for ...

A human hand found on a playground in Ireland is believed to have been dropped by a bird flying overhead.. The body part was dumped onto an empty schoolyard in northern Dublin around 10:30 a.m ...

The human hand is one of the most staggeringly sophisticated and physiologically intricate parts of the body. It has more than 30 muscles , 27 joints alongside a network of ligaments and tendons ...

Comparison of selected finger bones – modern human (dark shading) and chimpanzees (lighter shading). The colored patches are the muscle attachment locations, which are larger and more prominent ...

Irish authorities ‘were alerted to the discovery of partial human remains’ on Feb. 21, per a police statement obtained by PEOPLE, after a bird reportedly dropped a human hand into a schoolyard ...

“While contact location and force are critical feedback components, the sense of touch is far richer than this, also conveying information about the texture, material properties, local contours ...