Sweat glands are vital for regulating body temperature, maintaining fluid balance, and supporting skin health. Yet, extensive ...

Severe skin injuries can leave patients unable to sweat, posing life-threatening risks like hyperthermia and heatstroke. Now, ...

Researchers from l’Université Grenoble Alpes and the University of San Diego recently developed and patented a flexible device that’s able to produce electrical energy from human sweat.

In their new study, they reveal that a protein found in human sweat can be used to make skin creams that effectively treat ...

Humans sweat up to 1.7 litres of fluid an hour in hot weather. Every 2.54 square centimetre (square inch) of human skin contains 625 sweat glands. Women subconsciously prefer men who have a body ...

So what makes humans such endurance running superstars? The secret weapon is our sweat. We have 2-4 million sweat glands all over our body, which means we can run and cool ourselves at the same time.

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 ...