Back to School Heart Rate Checkup
**This is a guest post written by NC State undergraduate, Jakini Kauba. Jakini has been collaborating with Dr. Clint Penick on the Beats project, digging [...]
The Value of Art to Science—A story of rotting bodies, belly buttons and the music of symbiosis
In The Man Who Touched His Own Heart I tell the story of the artist Leonardo da Vinci’s discoveries inside bodies. Among the most astonishing of [...]
Chimps and Humans are Less Similar than We Thought
Mary Claire King, as much as any individual scholar, has changed how we think about what it means to be human. She did so using [...]
The Single Best Predictor of How Many Heartbeats You Will Experience
The single easiest way to increase the number of heartbeats you can expect to experience in your life is to move. Geography is a far better [...]
Life at the Margins
Some discoveries and innovations come from big labs funded incredibly well by governments in affluent countries. They come from those in the mainstream, freighters plowing [...]
The Beat Goes On
Princess Ahmose Meryet Amun -- daughter of an Egyptian pharaoh -- died with a heavy heart in 1540 BC. It was not until 2008, some [...]
The Pump of Youth
What is the secret to a long life? The heartbeat of some animals may hold a clue. Studies have concluded that mammals get about a [...]