Giving new meaning to “sensitivity training,” scientists have developed a simple way to greatly enhance the human body’s ability to feel subtle sensations.
The enhanced sensitivity, achieved with a tiny stimulating device and a single dose of a drug, has reversed fingertip numbness in older people, many of whom have trouble performing everyday tasks such as [...]

New research on the sense of touch shows that learning, and the brain rewiring necessary for learning, can be enhanced by drugs. The findings could help to restore touch sensation in the elderly or injured and lead to treatments for some forms of chronic pain.
“Everything is chemical in the brain. If it becomes feasible to [...]

Metallica certainly doesn’t have the reputation for being particularly fan friendly when it comes to the internet, so it’s no surprise that they’ve made the decision not to let music download services like iTunes offer up their songs on an individual basis. Now, however, many other bands are protesting this a la carte distribution of [...]