Do tattoos impair the skin’s ability to sweat? Despite the global ubiquitousness of tattoos this question has received surprisingly little research attention. A new, first-of-its-kind study is ...

Scientists have discovered the signaling pathways that help hair follicles and sweat glands form during development, and identified the mechanism that allows both of these features to coexist in human ...

The human body may be equipped with a separate sensory system aside from the nerves that gives us the ability to touch and feel, according to a new study. Most of us have millions of different types ...

In the first, you’re hiking uphill on a warm day, beads of sweat rolling down your forehead. In the second, you’ve just ...

Researchers have characterized the structure of human sweat glands down to the single cell level; the findings clarify the functional components of these glands and their interactions with the ...

Sweating and sweat activation by the sympathetic nervous system were evaluated in 100 patients: 50 with atopic dermatitis and 50 controls. Twice as many participants with atopic dermatitis met the ...

Butt sweat is a common occurrence. While it is a typical part of life for most people, there are strategies to help reduce or prevent it. Butt sweat is a universal, albeit uncomfortable, fact of life.

As early humans shed the hairy coats of their closest evolutionary ancestors, they also gained a distinct feature that would prove critical to their success: a type of sweat gland that allows the body ...