The heart is a pump, and the blood goes round, and round, and round all the time. And why does it do that? Why can't it just have a rest? Well, the blood has to be kept moving around all the time ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a method to more precisely heat up gold nanoparticles to target and destroy cancerous tumors. Using imaging methods that combine light and sound ...

Narrator: Well here we are ladies and gentlemen, in the heart, the powerhouse of the circulatory system, the hardest working muscle in the entire human body! Your heart first pumps blood to your lungs ...

Until 1628 few Europeans disputed the teachings of Galen, an accomplished Greek physician and scholar. Galen lived in the second century A.D., and his teachings would come to dominate European ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Michael Boyle is an experienced financial professional with more than 10 years working with ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

Cryptovaranoides, an end-Triassic animal (just over 200 Ma old), was originally described as a possibly anguimorph squamate, i.e., more closely related to snakes and some extant lizards than to other ...