Not every notebook has a touch screen, but try one, and you'll be a tap-and-swipe convert. Here's what to know about touch-panel technology, plus the best touch-screen laptops you can buy, based on ...

Touch is quite possibly the most useful sense we possess. In pure utilitarian terms our sense of touch serves as the first and best warning system that something externally is affecting us (as anyone ...

For those who are unfamiliar with Touch Detective, it is a point-and-click adventure series about a young detective named Mackenzie. She’s known as the touch detective due to her chronicling her ...

Greater Good‘s latest video features our executive editor, Dacher Keltner, on the science of touch. Here, he elaborates on cutting-edge research into the ways everyday forms of touch can bring us ...

It was such a bold change to a keyboard that Apple championed the Touch Bar — for a while. Then it quickly started to fade away before vanishing completely. Here's what happened, and why. Stop us if ...

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 ...

Thought experiment: What would life be like if you did not have a sense of touch? Our skin is our largest sense organ, constituting 16 to 18 percent of adult body weight, and we rely on it heavily in ...

You're in a crowded subway car on a Tuesday morning, or perhaps on a city bus. Still-sleepy commuters, lulled by vibrations, remain hushed, yet silently broadcast their thoughts. A toddler in his ...