Originally appeared on the NOVA Web site Cut to the Heart. Let's get straight to the heart of the matter—the heart's job is to move blood. Day and night, the muscles of your heart contract and ...

Your heart beats about 100,000 times in one day and about 35 million times in a year. During an average lifetime, the human heart will beat more than 2.5 billion times. Give a tennis ball a good ...

It also shows how the pacemaker cells restart her heart after the surgery. This short film is from the BBC series, Inside the Human Body. The 3D footage brings the topic to life and would enhance ...

In the attempt to calculate the power of the human heart for a given time, we shall arrive at some curious and interesting, not to say astonishing results. Few would credit, at first, the ...

An estimated 18 million people live on the island, with the majority based in the coastal lowlands and cities. The forests of the Heart of Borneo area are of high value for people’s livelihoods and ...

BBC News The Gogo fish's heart had two chambers, one above the other, which went on to evolve into the human heart The Gogo fish is the first of a class of prehistoric fish called placoderms.

Trendy weight-loss drugs making headlines for shrinking waistlines may also be shrinking the human heart and other muscles, according to a new University of Alberta study in JACC: Basic to ...

A "pumping" patch containing millions of living, beating stem cells could help repair the damage caused by a heart attack, according to researchers. Sewn on to the heart, the 3cm (1in) by 2cm ...