Your skin isn’t just glowing — it’s gassy. And now, science is sniffing it out. Researchers at Northwestern University have developed the world’s first contactless wearable device that can monitor ...

Across many old stories, angels seem so close to humans yet always just out of reach. They appear in visions, stand beside travelers, whisper warnings, or light the sky with their presence. However, ...

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 ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The human skin is the body’s largest organ. It also provides one ...

If you had to rank the most powerful sense, which would you choose? Over 88 percent of participants in a 2016 survey ranked vision as their most important sense, followed by hearing in a distant ...

An artificial skin is even better than human skin at sensing objects, because it can detect and identify items that it hasn’t touched yet. “Human skin has to touch something to tell it what is there,” ...

Sensing a hug from each other via the internet may be a possibility in the near future. A research team recently developed a wireless, soft e-skin that can both detect and deliver the sense of touch, ...