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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The next wearable device isn’t interested in your body’s movements, but rather its molecules. Scientists have recently developed a set of sensors that sit on your skin, such as in a wristband or ...

Scientists say perspiration might hold the key to detecting everything from diabetes to Parkinson’s disease without a single needle stick. Research reveals how sweat analysis is rapidly evolving from ...

1. Composed of about 99 percent water, sweat evaporates on the skin’s surface, cooling the body and keeping it from overheating. 2. Sweat secretions help you in other ways, too. They include dermcidin ...

Thank god for sweat. Without it, our ancestors wouldn’t have been able to cool themselves down so easily while on the hunt for food, their brains may have never grown so big, and our species may have ...

Believe it or not, one of the hardest elements of endurance exercise is not the physicality but figuring out when and how much to drink. For the most part, athletes ...

Nothing gets me sweatier than mowing the lawn. When my wife and I bought a home on a lot with a generous yard last year, I immediately went all out: new mower, new trimmer (with a swiveling head for ...