When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Not all 1980s ad campaigns deserve a resurrection, but Chevy's "Heartbeat of America" was so perfect that it's surprising it took 32 years for GM to bring it back. The reborn Heartbeat campaign ...

That’s one way to make your heart jump — or slow it down, in one man’s case. Walking home one night, a 29-year-old man from Queens started experiencing heart palpitations at 140 beats per minute (bpm) ...

The Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) is one of the longest living vertebrates on Earth, with an estimated lifespan of up to 400 years or more. Its extraordinary lifespan, extremely slow ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Heart disease and cancer are the leading causes of death in the ...

The beating of the heart stops cancers from growing in this organ in mice, reports a study published today in Science 1. This could explain why tumours affecting the heart are so rare in mammals, ...

Women on CagriSema lost 25% of their body weight in a post hoc trial analysis, while 79.6% of users had digestive side effects. The drug is not approved. Ice Water, Math Quizzes, and Shocks: The 1948 ...

Project Heart Beat is responsible for saving the lives of more than 220 people through its managed program participants and the placement of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) throughout San ...

This article was made possible by the support of Yakult and produced independently by Scientific American’s board of editors. Earlier this year I got an Oura ring to track the state of my health. Soon ...

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 ...