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Schulz et al. examined the whiskers that cover Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) trunks and found that they are geometrically and mechanically tailored to facilitate tactile perception by encoding contact location in the amplitude and frequency of the vibrotactile signal felt at the whisker base. Image credit: Schulz et al., doi: 10.1126/science.adx8981.

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Remarkable Sense of Touch in Elephant’s Trunk Isn’t Just about Muscles or Nerves: Study

February 18, 2026

Keratin composites enable animals to hike with hooves, fly with feathers, and sense with skin. Mammalian whiskers are…

Chen et al. carried out two studies: the first, a human study assessing fingertip sensitivity to tactile cues from buried objects; the second, a robotic experiment using a tactile-equipped robotic arm and a Long Short-Term Memory model to detect object presence. Image credit: Gemini AI.

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Humans Have Form of ‘Remote Touch,’ Scientists Claim

November 10, 2025

Humans possess the ability to sense objects without direct contact, a sense that some animals have, according to…