In his series 'Redesign my Brain', award winning documentary maker Todd Sampson sets out to improve his senses: sight, hearing and touch. To prove that his sensory perception has been enhanced, Todd will compete in a safe-cracking...

We don't often think of touch as being a vital part of movement, but touch is one part of a network that oversees all the sensations arising from the surface and interior of our bodies. Touch, pain, temperature, and our spatial awareness...

National Science Foundation-funded small business SynTouch has developed a sensor technology that gives robots the ability to replicate -- and sometimes exceed -- the human sense of touch. Their sensor is modeled after the human...

In this week's episode, we learn about new tools to protect against malicious websites, restoring the sense of touch to amputees and those with paralysis, and examine how older adults hear.

Miss Palomine discovers that her cup is leaking, thanks to her sense of touch. She tells the student that her hands helped her find out what had happened. She and the student then begin a discussion of all the information he can learn...

Our skin contains receptors that give us the sense of touch.
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In this week's episode we examine spiders' silk, coral reefs, artificial retina technology, and the sense of touch. Check it out!

In this week’s episode of NSF Science Now we explore spiders’ silk, a bionic eye, coral reefs, and finally the sense of touch.

In this week's episode of NSF Science Now we explore spiders' silk, a bionic eye, coral reefs, and finally the sense of touch.

In this week's episode, we learn about new tools to protect against malicious websites, restoring the sense of touch to amputees and those with paralysis and examine how older adults really hear.

In this video, the teacher explains the importance of the tongue and its role in our sense of taste. They discuss the basic tastes our tongues can detect, the number of taste buds in our body, and how taste and smell work together to...

Are the five senses really all that we use to take in the world around us, or is it a little more complex than that, with psychology playing a more prominent role than you might have thought?

Modern medicine is in danger of losing a powerful, old-fashioned tool: human touch. Physician and writer Abraham Verghese describes our strange new world where patients are merely data points, and calls for a return to the traditional...

We think of pain as a symptom, but there are cases where the nervous system develops feedback loops and pain becomes a terrifying disease in itself. Starting with the story of a girl whose sprained wrist turned into a nightmare, Elliot...

I wrote this for my early elementary science classes to teach about the sense of touch! (lyrics below) lyrics: Skin, skin, We're covered in skin, Skin gives our sense of touch, Skin, skin, We're covered in skin, Skin can touch so much......

In this five senses for kids video we will answer the question, "What are the five senses?" which are the sense of sight, sense of taste, sense of sound, sense of smell, and sense of touch. These senses can vary between individuals so we...

Most people have thought about: How does it feel to die? What is death like? In this video, I examine what science says about this. Some commonalities in what people experience are: positive emotions, meeting...

Research engineers and students in the University of California, Los Angeles, Biomechatronics Lab are designing artificial limbs to be more sensational, with the emphasis on sensation. With support from the National Science Foundation,...

This video explores the fascinating world of memory and its impact on our lives. From the complex processes of short-term and long-term memory to the limited capacity of our short-term memory bank, viewers learn about the inner workings...

Seals and sea lions use whiskers to sense the world around them.
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Seals and sea lions have a very acute sense of touch thanks to their...

In his series 'Redesign my Brain', award winning documentary maker Todd Sampson sets out to improve his senses: sight, hearing and touch. To prove that his sensory perception has been enhanced, Todd will compete in a safe-cracking...

In his series 'Redesign my Brain', award winning documentary maker Todd Sampson sets out to improve his senses: sight, hearing and touch. To prove that his sensory perception has been enhanced, Todd will compete in a safe-cracking...

Telerehab, or doctor-patient consultation by phone or video, lacks a sense of touch that makes it impossible for the doctor to fully evaluate her patient’s musculoskeletal movements, says UT-Dallas computer science professor Dr....

Earth is truly staggering they are estimated to be between 5 to 10 million different living species on the earth and that's excluding all the bacteria as they are really hard to count. So, what do they all have in common what makes...