Canadian physical activity guidelines recommend that for substantial health benefits, adults should do at least 150 minutes of moderate- to vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activity per week.

Wearable activity trackers that promise to monitor physical activity, sleep and more are becoming increasingly popular with health-conscious consumers. A recent study has found that the trackers are ...

Monitoring brain blood flow in a volunteer with the new functional interferometric diffusing wave spectroscopy device invented at UC Davis. The new technology promises easier, cheaper measurements of ...

Bellabeat, a company focused on creating technology products designed for women, is today ready to launch its first wearable, the Leaf activity tracker. First announced last year, the Leaf is an ...

This is the moment of the quantified self. It’s not clear which parts of our measurement moment will prove faddish and which will stick. But in the meantime, new evidence suggests that when we do ...

A new report from two fellows at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society is out today: “Measuring Internet Activity: A (Selective) Review of Methods and Metrics” breaks down attempts at measuring ...

Scientists have detected signs of autism in babies as young as six months, leading to hopes of a test for the disorder. They made the breakthrough by measuring brain activity and believe it could lead ...

You'll never look at a drop of water the same way. By measuring a water droplet with a resolution comparable with the scale of a single atom, scientists have determined that the droplet interface ...

image: A noninvasive method for measuring brain blood flow with light has been developed by biomedical engineers and neurologists at UC Davis, and used to detect brain activation. The new method, ...