Through meditation, one can gain insight into the illusion of the self and the movement of thought, and experience a state of ...

The pattern of reaching biases is stable across contexts and can be attributed to a misalignment between eye-centric and body-centric representations of position.

Proprioception refers to “the body’s ability to sense movement, action and location.” Close your eyes and hold out your arm in a random position. Being able to precisely locate one’s arm in space with ...

The mindful movement has become popular online. You won’t bulk up if you practice it, but it can improve balance and reduce ...

An adaptive fin made of electronic skin automatically stabilizes underwater robots with low energy consumption.

Those of us who watch the Olympics as bystanders tend to smugly judge athletes for succumbing to pressure without ...

Dry skin, or xeroderma and xerosis, occurs in 40% to 60% of all adults, especially in winter. It occurs in 70% to 99% of adults aged 60 years of age or older and increases with age.

A team led by HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow Shan Meltzer has created a detailed, cell-by-cell map of the spinal cord that offers a new framework for understanding chronic pain and provides a powerful new ...

The next phase of AI, already underway, will integrate text with vision, sound, motion and even touch. This will produce systems that no longer 'read about' the world but perceive it.

When runners set their sights on the Cape Wrath Ultra — a roughly 250 mile, eight-day stage race across the Scottish Highlands — the journey starts long before the flight. Cape Wrath isn’t just about ...

Touch—the first sense to develop in the womb—is fundamental to our bodily experience and our everyday lives. Yet, as the least studied of the five senses, it remains somewhat mysterious at the ...

Why do we seek certainty in our lives? Why do we sometimes not want certainty? This post explains how certainty is part of affect, the evaluative common currency of the mind.