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"Radar" is in the singular, so the plural "heartbeats" cannot apply to it.

edit: Also, if somehow the radar had multiple heartbeats, we would have used "its heartbeats" rather than "their heartbeats."

disclaimer: I am not a grammarian or a linguist (IANAGOAL?)



That's not the ambiguity. The ambiguity is whether the Radar found them by their heartbeats, or whether they were trapped by their heartbeats.


Or did the radar find the men, while trapped in the rubble by the men's heartbeats?


That doesn't work because "found 4 men" is not a modifier on "NASA's Radar". If it said "NASA's Radar Found By 4 Men Trapped In Rubble" then that would work.




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