The human heart, a fist-sized muscle, tirelessly beats billions of times throughout life, powering every cell by delivering oxygen and removing waste. Its rate varies significantly from birth to old ...

Research shows that heart attacks are becoming more prevalent among adults younger than 50—and the outcomes are worse for women. The good news is we know how to prevent them. Heart attacks, or ...

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The Cars are releasing an expanded "Deluxe Edition" of their 1984 album, Heartbeat City, for its 40th anniversary, which took place last year. The four-CD and one-LP set arrives on Oct. 31 with discs ...

Computer Science and Engineering Ph.D. student Nayan Bhatia demonstrates Pulse-Fi, technology that uses WiFi signals to measure a person's heart rate. Heart rate is one of the most basic and important ...

Part 3 of the TED Radio Hour episode How we experience time. Cognitive neuroscientist Irena Arslanova says our brain perceives time but our body shapes how we experience it. She shares how our ...

Richard Heart, the controversial founder of HEX, is claiming total victory over the US SEC after years of court battles. On April 21, the SEC said that it would not amend and refile its fraud case ...

For the first time, surgeons have successfully performed a remarkable new heart transplant in which the donor organ never skips a beat in the process, reducing the damage that can occur during such a ...

Your heart beats about 100,000 times a day. Sometimes it beats faster and sometimes more slowly, depending on what you're doing and whether, for instance, you're all worked up about something. So ...

Thanks to the proliferation of smartwatches and fitness trackers, it’s never been easier to log your heart rate while running: Simply don the device, start your workout, and watch those beats per ...

You know the feeling. When you first see your crush and your head starts spinning, your palms get sweaty, and your heart begins beating a mile a minute. Is this love? Or is it … an arrhythmia? The ...