Heart Rate

Tech
Watch Daring Scientists Take a Wild Whale’s Heart Rate for the First Time
The experiment revealed that blue whales have a much more extreme range of heart rates than predicted.
Becky Ferreira
11.25.19
Health
Your Fitness Tracker Might Be Wildly Inaccurate
Heart rate monitors didn't fare well in a recent test.
Denny Watkins
3.10.17
Tech
According to Our Fitness Trackers, That Debate Was Stressful AF
I asked people on Twitter how high their heart rate was during the debate.
Ankita Rao
10.20.16

Tech
Cameras Are Getting Better at Seeing if You're Nervous
A new approach to computer vision can select regions of your face to analyze in order to determine your heart rate and underlying emotion.
Daniel Oberhaus
7.25.16
Health
I Doubled My Heart Rate Drinking the Three Most Sugary Drinks on the Street
A report released yesterday identified the coffee shop drinks containing the most amount of sugar. I thought I'd drink the three worst offenders to see if I could make my heart explode.
Tom Usher, Photos: Jake Lewis
2.18.16
Games
The Insane Stress of Playing 'E.T.,' the World's Worst Video Game
I hooked myself up to a blood pressure monitor to see just how awful the Atari 2600 'classic' really is.
Joe Donnelly
7.16.15