Heartbeat

Bumble has lost a third of its Texas workforce in the months since the state passed the controversial abortion SB 8 (Senate Bill 8), also known as the Texas Heartbeat Act, over a year ago. This new data point was shared by Bumble’s Interim General Counsel, Elizabeth Monteleone, speaking on a panel this afternoon at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. The panel focused on the “healthcare crisis in Post-Roe America” and featured women who had both sued and spoken out about the need to have doctors, not politicians,…

An experimental study from Linköping University suggests that the sex hormone estrogen negatively impacts heartbeat regulation and may increase the risk of certain types of arrhythmia. The researchers found that some hereditary mutations interact with estrogen sensitivity, and endocannabinoids seem to function as protective factors in Long QT syndrome (LQTS).According to a study published in <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div…

Blind people are better than sighted people when it comes to sensing their own heartbeats, a new study shows – hinting that not being able to see as much externally leads to a more acute awareness of what's happening internally.Researchers hooked up a pulse oximeter to 36 blind people and 36 age- and sex-matched people with full sight. While each participant's heartbeat rate was scientifically measured, they were also asked to count their own heartbeats without checking their pulse or touching their own bodies in any…

Right now, your brain is keeping track of the passage of time without your awareness, letting you focus on better things like reading this story.This happens automatically, but not consistently. The brain's perception of time can fluctuate, with some moments seeming to stretch or shrink relative to each objective second.While these wrinkles in time may be distortions of reality, technically they aren't all in your head. According to a new study, some originate in your heart.Heartbeats set the pace for time perception,…

Fifty years ago, the Supreme Court effectively legalized abortion with its Roe v. Wade decision. Seven months ago, the Court took those rights away. Since the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson, antiabortion legislators have pushed state-level laws that try to ban abortions at earlier and earlier points in pregnancy. With some of these laws, legislators want to make abortion illegal as soon as an embryo has detectable cardiac activity. These so-called “fetal heartbeat laws” and their underlying talking point that abortion…

Claire and Colin Carver were practically born into the family business. From the time they were kids, the Durango-raised siblings played with toys in the booths at Carver Brewing Co., Colorado’s second oldest brewpub, and napped on bags of malt in the second-story grain room as their father Bill Carver and uncle Jim Carver ran the restaurant and brewery, which they founded in 1986 and 1989, respectively. As a young girl, Claire recalls sneaking house-made brownies and bagels out of a display case on her way to dance…

The heart of the Etruscan shrew, one of the world’s smallest mammals, beats incredibly fast — up to 1,500 times per minute, or 25 times per second. The human heart, in comparison, is sluggish, beating only 60 to 100 times a minute. Then there’s the heart of the blue whale, the largest animal ever to have lived. These marine giants can be longer than two school buses, and their hearts — which are roughly the size of a loveseat and weigh over 1,000 pounds — beat as few as two times per minute. If you were to put an…

Astronomers have detected an extremely strange radio signal from a distant galaxy that pulses with a heartbeat-like rhythm. This signal lasted about 1,000 times longer than other fast radio bursts (FRBs), and had a clear periodic pattern to its pulses.FRBs are pretty self-explanatory – they’re bursts of radio signals from space that are very fast, lasting mere milliseconds. Some of them are one-hit wonders, while others have been known to repeat, either randomly or in a predictable pattern. Hundreds of FRBs have been…

Astronomers have detected a strange and persistent radio signal from a far-off galaxy that appears to be flashing with surprising regularity, similar to a 'heartbeat'.The signal is classified as a fast radio burst, or FRB -- an intensely strong burst of radio waves of unknown astrophysical origin, that typically lasts for a few milliseconds at most.However, this new signal, labelled FRB 20191221A, persisted for up to three seconds -- about 1,000 times longer than the average FRB.Within this window, the team, including…

A team of astronomers recently detected a fast radio burst that persists about 1,000 times longer than the average burst and has a clear periodic pattern. The radio burst is an eclectic new addition to the running list of mysterious radio signals that emanate from various sources across the universe.Fast radio bursts are fleeting pulses of radio waves, the sources of which remain unknown. All known bursts camefrom beyond the Milky Way until 2020, when the CHIME radio telescope discovered a signal that seemed to come from…