Navigating a busy street, a new city, or even your own home requires more than just memory of landmarks. Deep inside your brain, specialized networks act like a compass, constantly recalibrating so ...

Sand has a memory of sorts. Press into a loose pile of dry grains and something moves, not just where your finger sits, but farther out, ahead of where you have not yet reached. That disturbance ...

The human sense of touch turns out to be much more sensitive than we thought. It goes beyond just simple physical contact with an object. A new study has demonstrated that humans have the ability to ...