A scientific study reveals that a virtual hug can reduce sadness and offer emotional comfort even without physical contact.

Most of the time, our brains are very good at blending together input from all our senses into a seamless, unified conscious experience of “my body.” When this process of integrating different sensory ...

Imagine a virtual human body, rich in complexity and detail, that enables scientists to simulate experiments that can’t be conducted in vivo or in vitro. A team of Chinese researchers brought this ...

From interactive diagrams to A.I. assistants, virtual tools are beginning to supplant physical dissections in some classrooms Students learn anatomy from an Asclepius AI Table, which merges ...

I am regularly astounded by technological advances. It’s not like every few weeks I read something that makes my brain explode—it’s more like every day. As a sex therapist, I inevitably consider the ...

According to the United Nations, on November 15, 2022, the world population reached 8 billion people. Eight billion faces, of which each one of us can remember about 5,000, on average. And we ...

Cadavers have been used in medical training for centuries, and dissections are a rite of passage for first-year students in medical school. Traditionally, the cadavers being dissected were real human ...