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For centuries, we have sought to understand ourselves, gazing at the stars to find our place in the cosmos while the intricate …

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In the 1970s, an elite runner seeking to optimize their performance would have worn a cumbersome chest strap, its electrodes pi…

Published on Dec. 2, 2024, 9:22 a.m.

For centuries, we have sought to understand the complex machinery within us. We’ve relied on intuition, listening for the subtl…

Published on Dec. 2, 2024, 7:07 a.m.

In the mid-20th century, a new kind of timepiece was forged not in the crucible of fashion, but in the crushing pressure of the…

Published on Dec. 2, 2024, 7 a.m.

Before the digital age, the dialogue between a person and their own heart was mediated by touch and time. A physician would pre…

Published on Dec. 2, 2024, 6:47 a.m.

For over a century, the watch on a person’s wrist has lived a double life. It has been both a precision instrument born of a sc…

Published on Dec. 2, 2024, 6:20 a.m.

Our bodies and the world around us are in constant, silent conversation. The rhythmic, almost imperceptible variation between o…

Published on Dec. 2, 2024, 6:02 a.m.

For centuries, the finest minds in horology have been consumed by a singular obsession: the capture and complication of time. I…

Published on Dec. 2, 2024, 5:01 a.m.

For centuries, the most intimate piece of health technology we possessed was our own two fingers. Placed gently on a wrist, the…

Published on Dec. 2, 2024, 4:51 a.m.

"Know thyself," the ancient Greek aphorism inscribed at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, has echoed through millennia as a corne…