Humans Can Detect Buried Objects Without Touching Them, Study Finds

Recent research suggests that humans have a surprising ability—we can sometimes feel a physical object before making contact with it.

In a study published this past October in the journal IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning, researchers found that, similarly to some shorebirds, we have a form of “remote touch.” Simply put, when you move your hand through granular materials like sand, you can feel an object buried in said material before touching it directly.

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