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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Real-time measurements of sweat rate and electrolytes and metabolites in sweat. (Credit: Bizen Maskey, Sunchon National University) A new scalable, high-throughput fabrication process that makes use ...

Afraid of getting your blood drawn? Well, a solution to that may be well in the works as researchers at the University of California—Berkeley are working on developing wearable skin sensors that can ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most of the time, people want to sweat less. But the very liquid that we try so hard to avoid producing is a goldmine of data — and researchers want to harness it to do everything from combat stress ...

Athletes always need to be conscientious of their hydration, and those playing endurance sports like tennis require even more attention to this detail. As little as a 2.5% loss of bodyweight through ...