100 years ago, doctors sent a heartbeat over a phone line, as reported by Popular Science in 1921 , but devices enabling remote care may have finally found their moment: The pandemic could be a long-awaited turning point for telemedicine
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Popular Science “Can we make ourselves more empathetic?”
This piece looks back 100 years into Popular Science’s archives to a story that covered the first experiments with electricity used to measure human emotions. We’ve come a long way, but polygraphs and other emotional sensors are still imperfect after a century of practice. Can we make ourselves more empathetic? 100 years of research still […]
