Over the course of evolution, the human heart has largely lost its ability to regenerate. Our distant ancestors were not ...

The human heart has the ability to repair itself, scientists have found, in a breakthrough that could provide a lifeline for hundreds of thousands of patients.

It wasn’t a typical anatomy lab. The small group of people gathered around a table at Southwest Minnesota State University ...

During his regular checkup, a 9-year-old clouded leopard named Masala undergoes a procedure to get a tiny heart monitor implanted under his skin at the Smithsonian's Conservation Biology Institute in ...

During his regular checkup, a 9-year-old clouded leopard named Masala undergoes a procedure to get a tiny heart monitor implanted under his skin at the Smithsonian's Conservation Biology Institute in ...

Scientists have reversed diabetic heart failure with a genetic therapy in mice and miniature human "hearts" grown from stem cells. The new gene therapy may be a promising treatment for diabetic heart ...

The tides of war often turn on the unexpected, such as attacking the enemy on an unanticipated front. General George Washington attempted to do just that when he assailed Philadelphia by way of ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Humans have been trying to replace ailing parts of our bodies for thousands of years, turning to prosthetic limbs, ...

Purdue University Scho o l of Nursing students place their hands into a large, beating human heart, immersing themselves into anatomy rather than simply studying it. “Nursing is very hands-on,” Nagle ...

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 ...

In the early minutes of La Jolla Playhouse’s world premiere musical “The Heart,” a giant 3-D model of a human heart slowly revolves on a large video screen behind the stage. It’s an appropriate ...