Technology and training have improved to the point that blind people can adeptly perform a dazzling array of jobs — soon to include the governorship of New York. The biggest obstacle still in their ...

A stock photo of "I Voted" stickers. In 2020, 17.7 million people with disabilities reported casting a ballot in the general election, according to the United States Election Assistance Commission.

Italy explores whether couples could build real connections without seeing each other, following participants as they dated in pods, got engaged sight unseen, and tested their relationships in the rea ...

In 1887 a police reporter named Jacob Riis stormed the tenements of New York armed with flashlight powder-an explosive form ...

Jeremy Poincenot was just 19 when he learned he was going blind thanks to Leber hereditary optic neuropathy, a genetic optic-nerve disease. His father, Lionel, had bought him a new set of golf clubs ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis-born army veteran Jeffrey Mittman sits with his hands intertwined. A scar can be seen in place of his right index finger. These are the hands of a hero. ”I went off and ...

Judith Lowes receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council and the British Psychological Society Cognitive Section. Have you ever been ignored by someone you knew when you bumped into ...