Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel fresco has been cleaned for the first time in decades after human sweat damaged the painting.

A "bead of sweat" is a beautiful turn of phrase, but the imagery is not quite right. Scientifically speaking, it may be more accurate to say a "film of sweat". A new study has found that human ...

New technology could make it significantly easier to monitor patients’ vital health signs. Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed an electronic finger wrap that monitors ...

Sweat is something that your body produces all the time, and while it may be sticky, it's also super important: It helps hold your body temperature at a healthy level, and it allows you to exercise ...

Human sweat contains a protein that may protect against Lyme disease. About one-third of the population carries a genetic variant of this protein that is associated with Lyme disease in genome-wide ...