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This is what a plant sounds like when it’s stressed
New research challenges assumptions that the plant kingdom is silent. Turns out, plants make a lot of noise when they’re stressed.
Other plants and animals might even be able to interpret those sounds. And the ability to listen in could even help humans get smarter about the way we grow our crops, especially in a world where climate change is increasingly stressing us all out.
“Even in a quiet field, there are actually sounds that we don’t hear, and those sounds carry information,” Lilach Hadany, senior author of the paper and an evolutionary biologist and theoretician at Tel Aviv University, says in a press release.
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Kim Petras ‘stressed’ ahead of historic Grammys appearance
Your Apple Watch can predict when you’re not stressed out
There’s a feature on the Apple Watch that is intended to be able to detect your stress. And a new study claims that it actually works not only to detect your stress, but to predict it too. Or, rather, your Apple Watch can predict when you’re not stressed out — which is kind of stressful.
The existing feature allows Apple Watch owners to take an electrocardiogram — also known as ECGs or EKGs — with the ECG app directly through their watch. ECG tests record the timing and strength of your heartbeat; it’s a test doctors use to learn about your heart rhythm and look for irregularities. According to the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, doctors regularly use ECGs to perform stress tests, so it’s not surprising that Apple would want to include ECG capabilities in their new tech.
“The ECG app can record your heartbeat and rhythm using the electrical heart sensor on Apple Watch Series 4, Series 5, Series 6, Series 7, Series 8 or Ultra and then check the recording for atrial fibrillation (AFib), a form of irregular rhythm,” according to Apple support. “The ECG app records an electrocardiogram which represents the electrical pulses that make your heart beat. The ECG app checks these pulses to get your heart rate and see if the upper and lower chambers of your heart are in rhythm. If they’re out of rhythm, that could be AFib.”
It was unclear how useful the Apple Watch ECG reading would be in tracking stress, though. But a new study claims the ECG feature — along with other measurements in the Apple Watch — works as a basic stress detector and can be used for stress prediction, too. According to the study published in the journal Frontiers in Digital Health, “the current models have high specificity, predicting ‘no stress’ states relatively well, [but] it lacks the predictive power to accurately predict the ‘stress’ states as of yet.”
“Overall, the results presented here suggest that, with further development and refinement, Apple Watch ECG sensor data could be used to develop a stress prediction tool,” the paper reads. “A wearable device capable of continuous, real-time stress monitoring would enable individuals to respond early to changes in their mental health. Furthermore, large-scale data collection from such devices would inform public health initiatives and policies.”
But all that extra data about our stress might just make us more stressed out.
Lindsey Rosman, a clinical health psychologist and an assistant professor of cardiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, found in a research paper that a 70-year-old woman suffering from atrial fibrillation performed nearly 1,000 ECGs on her watch in a single year. The additional data didn’t lead to any alterations in the patient’s medical treatment but her constant use of the watch and fear and anxiety related to her health had a “profoundly negative impact on her mental health, relationships, and quality of life.”
This is, obviously, a pretty radical example of how technology can increase our stress, but it isn’t an isolated incident. Another study from the University of Copenhagen found that nudges from their Fitbit tracker to encourage them to go for a walk or engage in self care were a source of stress more than anything else for many users.
So, the Apple Watch can do what Apple said it could do: Track our every stressful move. But do we want it to? And is that actually good?
New Song: Doechii – ‘Stressed’
Doechii is back with some new music.
Having first premiered her new song on via a ‘Colors Live Show,’ she has now officially shared her track ‘Stressed.’
Across the track, she dynamically delivers the lines:
“I must be lost in my regrets / I must be down, I must be stressed / I’ve got like thirteen years of age / That I ain’t still got off my chest / It must be so much more to life / If I had diamonds and bouguettes [sic] / I must be stupid,
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Dogs are able to smell when a person is feeling stressed, study finds
Stressed? Your Dog Can Probably Smell It
A dog’s snoot may be well-suited to sniffing out stress in humans, new research out Wednesday suggests. The small study found that dogs could be trained to recognize the odors of stressed people and to distinguish these signals from those collected during non-stressful times. The findings only further highlight the…