Research says that our health can suffer when we don’t experience enough physical contact. Here’s how to get more.

Touch is a vital sense in human survival and experience, not for just how it informs personal connections but as an important early warning system for identifying harm. Yet not all touch is equal.

A new study suggests humans can sense hidden objects without touching them, by detecting faint movements in sand. This unexpected form of “remote touch” challenges traditional ideas about how the ...

Humans are wired to be touched. From birth until the day we die, our need for physical contact remains. Being touch starved — also known as skin hunger or touch deprivation — occurs when a person ...

Earlier this year, Tiffany Field, head of the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine, traveled to different airports in Florida to watch people interacting. A ...

Therapeutic touch massage (TTM) is a form of energy healing. There is limited research supporting the efficacy of this alternative practice. Several ancient healing philosophies regard the universe as ...

Touching your toes depends on the flexibility of your hamstrings, calves, ankles, glutes, hips, and lower back. Tightness in any one area can limit your reach. You may be able to improve flexibility ...

Just over seven years after it was introduced, the Touch Bar has now been fully discontinued on all new MacBooks sold by Apple, marking the end of an era for a hardware feature that was loved by some ...

The iPod as we know it is officially dead. On May 10, Apple announced that it’s quietly discontinuing the $199 iPod Touch, the latest version of its iconic MP3 player. Basically an iPhone without the ...