Health

Is Night Shift really helping you sleep better?

How often have you laid in bed scrolling through news stories, social media or responding to a text? After staring at the screen, have you ever found that it is harder to fall asleep?

Psychology & Psychiatry

We like taking selfies but not looking at them

Selfies are enormously popular on social media. Google statistics have estimated that about 93 million selfies were taken per day in 2014, counting only those taken on Android devices. Selfie accessories such as selfie sticks ...

Parkinson's & Movement disorders

Smartwatches may be key to development of new Parkinson's treatments

New research shows that commercially available smartphones and watches, like the Apple Watch, are able to capture key features of early, untreated Parkinson's disease. These technologies could provide researchers with more ...

Health informatics

A mobility-based approach to optimize pandemic lockdown strategies

A new strategy for modeling the spread of COVID-19 incorporates smartphone-captured data on people's movements and shows promise for aiding development of optimal lockdown policies. Ritabrata Dutta of Warwick University, ...

Health

To avoid food poisoning, there's an app for that

(HealthDay)—There are apps for maps, restaurants and calorie-counting. Now, there's even one from the U.S. government for reducing your risk of foodborne illness.

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