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    The electronic skin conducts sweat through the holes that are placed throughout the device.Karen Kwon, Contributor(Inside Science) -- The quest to track health information without drawing blood has inspired wearables like Fitbit and Apple Watch, but...

    The Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) instrument being lowered into the Perseverance rover (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)Since landing on Mars on February 18, 2021,NASA's Perseverance rover has achieved numerous "firsts,&qu...

    [Photo: courtesy Takao Someya Group, the University of Tokyo]One of the greatest design challenges for wearables is making them as indistinguishable from skin as possible.Scientists are getting closer and closer to this goal. In a recent pa...

    Microbiology meshes with fashion to create a new kind of coolByBritt PetersonSmithsonian Magazine| SubscribeMarch 2016There’s nothing new about clothing derived from biology—think leather, fur, wool, even silk. But a garment that’s...