The mere mention of Leonardo da Vinci evokes genius. We know him as a polymath whose interests spanned astronomy, geology, hydrology, engineering and physics. As a painter, his Mona Lisa and Last ...

A beating pig heart on Jan. 21, 2025, at the University of Minnesota's Visible Heart Lab in Minneapolis. At the U's heart lab, millions of dollars of tubing and wires and technology work to keep a ...

They say love is housed in the heart, but the only way to really find out is to take a scalpel and start cutting. Thanks to ...

About heart valve disorders and their causes.

The amount of microplastics in the human brain appears to be increasing ... microplastics in their arteries were at a higher risk of heart attacks, stroke and death. Now that microplastics have ...

Exclusion criteria were previous cardiac surgery (except for aortic coarctation repair) or aortic dissection or the diagnoses of MFS or other severe congenital heart defect. No exclusions were made on ...

Yet one great achievement that frequently goes unrecognized is his studies of human anatomy. More than 500 years ... His studies on the heart combined both experimentation and observation. Using an ox ...

“Studies have found these plastics in the human heart, the great blood vessels, the lungs, the liver, the testes, the gastrointestinal tract and the placenta,” Landrigan said. “The biggest ...

A new study finds microplastics accumulate at higher levels in human brains than in the liver and kidneys. Microplastics, plastic particles fewer than 5 millimeters in size, have infiltrated the ...

Credit: NPS/Kurt Moses NASA scientists have uncovered significant changes in the global water cycle over the past two decades, largely driven by human activities such as agriculture. Their findings ...

Yet one great achievement that frequently goes unrecognised is his studies of human anatomy ... Using an ox’s heart to understand blood flow though the aortic valves, Leonardo poured molten ...