Maintaining a stable heartbeat is critical for survival. Your heart must constantly adapt its output to meet changing demands for oxygen and nutrients. Traditionally, scientists have attributed this ...

While everybody's heart has an absolute chronological age (as old as that person is), hearts also have a theoretical "biological" age that is based on how the heart functions. So, someone who is 50 ...

A new lab-grown material has revealed that some of the effects of aging in the heart may be slowed and even reversed. The discovery could open the door to therapies that rejuvenate the heart by ...

Specialists found that in people with regular blood pressure, heart rate variations are not related to the magnetic field variations, and only the baroreflex reacted to those changes as it turned out ...

Researchers at the Max Delbrück Center have found that a bacterial metabolite in the gut regulates the heart through specific brain cells. The findings reveal a new gut-brain-heart axis and point to ...

In a fitness world obsessed with counting steps, researchers have discovered a potentially game-changing way to interpret the data already collected by your smartwatch. The new measurement—Daily Heart ...