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> Remote touch allows the detection of objects buried under granular materials through subtle mechanical cues transmitted through the medium, when a moving pressure is applied nearby.

> These findings confirm that people can genuinely sense an object before physical contact

So, it’s just touch, relayed through grains of sand.

Less clickbaity title: Humans have 'remote' touch like sandpipers, research shows

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Same sentiment. It’s still touch through a slightly less solid medium.

It's being presented as if it was a new sense instead of regular physical thouch. There is nothing remote about it.

The surprising part was that we can interpret slight differences in touch to locate something buried shallowly in sand, which is interesting enough without the clickbait.

or 'Human touch is sensitive to material dynamics', although that's getting into the realms of the abstract.

I don't think that's even a novel result. It's been known for a while that we can perceive nanoscale textures based on interference between the texture of the material and texture of your fingerprints when in motion

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