A new wearable skin sensor developed at the University of California in Berkeley may be very useful to help us understand how the body’s chemical composition changes in a host of situations. For ...

Extract: Single sweat droplets were collected from a mineral oil-covered finger surface (fig. 1). Rate of sweat production (sweat rate) per gland per hour was calculated. Using microtechniques, the ...

Many of us have been there before: waking in the middle of the night, often in response to a dream or nightmare, afraid and covered in perspiration. While sweating has many benefits, such as being a ...

If you wanted to measure your heart rate or step count during exercise, you would use a fitness tracker. But what if you wanted a device to tell you when when you need to drink more water or should ...

Sweat is usually something people try to hide, wipe away or mask with deodorant, but it is also one of the body’s richest, least exploited data streams. Long before a person feels sick, subtle shifts ...

Following up after its latest smartwatch launched at the end of 2021, Withings has announced its next major smart health device coming in 2022. Body Scan will offer advanced readings for body ...

Engineers at the University of California Berkeley have developed a patch that can measure someone's sweat composition and sweat rate at the site of excretion. Many medical tests require blood drawn ...

Antiperspirant deodorants often claim to offer “24-hour” protection. What determines the length of time a deodorant works and how do they test for it? How does the chemical composition of the ...