During an average lifetime, the human heart will beat more than 2.5 billion times. Give a tennis ball a good, hard squeeze. You're using about the same amount of force your heart uses to pump ...

In Japan, you can set your watch by the arrival of a train. "Delays" (if that's the word) tend to be calculated in seconds – ...

For example, aging can bring the development of fibrosis — growth of excess tissue that impedes beating — or an abnormal ...

Her Oscar-contending documentary Instruments of a Beating Heart, a New York Times Op-Doc, goes inside a typical Tokyo school where kids are preparing to complete first grade. Yamazaki herself is a ...