These hospital nurses are healing with their hands
Until science can reconcile the biomedical paradigm with the body’s more ethereal phenomena, she’s okay being a bit like Master Yoda urging an incredulous Luke Skywalker to feel the Force.
Building limbs that feel
Researchers are placing sensors inside the body and linking them to prosthetic hands that can hold a phone, shake a hand or make an omelet
Americans are touching each other less—and it’s making us more violent
When monkeys can see and hear each other but can't touch, they get so aggressive they can kill.
The big potential of tiny homes
In St. Pete, Florida, diminutive houses are serving as a path back to society for both ex-felons and homeless vets.
A new generation of communes is evolving the way we live together
The 15 people who live here work jobs outside the house and share the cost of rent, but they aren’t just roommates. They’re participants in a small social experiment.
Inside Mumbai’s Slum Hotel
The one major problem, Sansi says, is the washroom. “It’s a communal toilet, which is used by around 150 residents of the slum."
Prescription heroin is the effective addiction treatment America refuses to try
Patients in treatment don't die of overdoses or commit crimes to support their addiction.
Raw Tools transforms guns into garden tools
"I’ve learned that stereotypes, including my own, don’t matter when you start to have a relationship with people."
The future of truth and artifice: highlights from Emerge Impact + Music day 2
"If we're telling the truth and we're doing it well, then it's going to come out in other places other than just our music."
Discussions with the droid
What lies beneath the "frubber"?
The killer in the cabinet
Bleach kills by striking at the pathogen’s very nature.
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