Within five minutes of casual conversation with our favorite geniuses—Barbara Kingsolver, Leonardo da Vinci, Meryl Streep, and Benjamin Franklin come to mind—we would all be likely to agree we’re ...

Dental floss embedded with saliva sensors detects cortisol accurately in real-time, providing a practical method for monitoring stress and improving health. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Stress is a widespread ...

Researchers design floss pick system with built-in sensors that could also be adapted to track a wide range of conditions like diabetes, heart disease, and cancer Chronic stress can lead to increased ...

Researchers have developed a new floss pick with smart technology that can detect cortisol, a hormone released during stressful periods, according to a story recently published in Tufts Now. The pick, ...

Researchers from the University of Waterloo discovered that measuring long-term stress through children’s hair samples can reveal early signs of mental health risks in those living with chronic ...

The Pandemic-related Traumatic Stress Scale (PTSS) can be used to effectively measure stress related to the COVID-19 pandemic and identify children and adults with higher levels of stress who may need ...

Thermal imaging, made possible by an infrared camera, can measure body surface temperature in birds and help researchers study stress. Tufts researchers found temperature changes of the beak and the ...

A new model based on measuring stress from daily hassles may help forecast future migraine headache attacks in those who develop them frequently. The findings, which are published in a Headache study, ...