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Body-sensitive people are tuned into their heart and their stomach

Body-sensitive people are tuned into their heart and their stomach | Science News | Scoop.it

Herbert and her team concluded: "'Interoceptive awareness' as assessed by heartbeat perception seems to represent a better ability to focus, to perceive and to process internal bodily information across visceral modalities, such as gastric signals, with cardiac and gastric signals both representing bodily cues that show perceivable activity changes during situations of everyday life."

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Does Music Affect Your Heartbeat?

Does Music Affect Your Heartbeat? | Science News | Scoop.it
Music affects your body in many different ways. It affects your mood, depression, it relaxes you. It also relaxes your muscles and bones. Music is a very powerful thing and nobody knows that.

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The mathematics of a heart beat could save lives

The mathematics of a heart beat could save lives | Science News | Scoop.it
(Medical Xpress) -- What we perceive as the beating of our heart is actually the co-ordinated action of more than a billion muscle cells. Most of the time, only the muscle cells from the larger heart chambers contract and relax.
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NASA | RXTE Detects 'Heartbeat' Of Smallest Black Hole Candidate

This animation compares the X-ray 'heartbeats' of GRS 1915 and IGR J17091, two This animation compares the X-ray 'heartbeats' of GRS 1915 and IGR J17091, two black holes that ingest gas from companion stars. GRS 1915 has nearly five times the mass of IGR J17091, which at three solar masses may be the smallest black hole known. A fly-through relates the heartbeats to hypothesized changes in the black hole's jet and disk.

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Follow Your Heart: Darpa’s Quest to Find You by Your Heartbeat

Follow Your Heart: Darpa’s Quest to Find You by Your Heartbeat | Science News | Scoop.it

The U.S. military can see you breathing on the other side of that wall. It can even see your heartbeat racing while you crouch behind the door. But if you think running farther away or hiding in a crowd will make you invisible to the Defense Department’s sensors, you might be in for a surprise. The Pentagon’s geeks are looking to tweak their life-form finder so they can spot your tell-tale heart no matter what you do.

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Using Big Data to Stop Heart Problems

Using Big Data to Stop Heart Problems | Science News | Scoop.it

To better protect people's health, Dr. Leslie Saxon wants to collect the heartbeat rhythm of every person in the world, and she is creating a website to do it. Called everyheartbeat, the site will allow anyone to upload their heart rate data, perhaps taken from the iPhone light, the AliveCor iPhone case, or any other sensor.

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Your heartbeat could keep your data safe

Your heartbeat could keep your data safe | Science News | Scoop.it
The unique pattern of your heartbeat could one day be used to encrypt hard drives and other electronics...
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Snakes know when to stop squeezing because they sense the heartbeats of their prey | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine

Snakes know when to stop squeezing because they sense the heartbeats of their prey | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine | Science News | Scoop.it
Animal behaviour | To fans of cheesy pop music, the beat of someone else’s heart is a symbol of romantic connection.
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'Heartbeat' of Earth's Atmosphere Detected from Space | Atmosphere Layers, Ionosphere, Atmosphere Heartbeat | OurAmazingPlanet.com

'Heartbeat' of Earth's Atmosphere Detected from Space | Atmosphere Layers, Ionosphere, Atmosphere Heartbeat | OurAmazingPlanet.com | Science News | Scoop.it
Waves generated by lightning in Earth's atmosphere ripples around the atmosphere and sometimes combine and resonate to make a stronger signal that can be detected from the ground.
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