Buddhist meditation and Pentecostal speaking in tongues could hardly look more different. But not to the brain.
Articles on Breathing
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The body actually automatically switches its dominant nostril as often as every two hours.
An atmospheric chemist offers quick, easy and inexpensive suggestions to reduce indoor air pollution.
A freediver recently set a new world record for a breath hold. His physical and mental training allowed him to delay a basic human survival response: breathing.
How Cpap reshapes your airway while you sleep.
Today’s radar technology can detect the minute movements when your heart beats or you take a breath. Machine learning turns those signals into vital signs readings.
It was previously believed that our pupil size was only affected by three things: light, focusing on nearby objects and cognitive effects.
Gas stoves are responsible for 12% of Australia’s childhood asthma. But replacing your cooktop might not be practical if you’re renting or struggling with cost-of-living.
An unplanned experiment when wildfire smoke rolled through Colorado shows how trees keep some of the smoke out.
Normally, breathing happens automatically. But we can control our breath, by directing the movement of our diaphragm and mouth. And the benefits are significant and wide-reaching.
Inhaling air is how you get the oxygen your body needs to turn your food into energy. Other living things use different strategies.
Breathing through your nose may help oxygen reach your working muscles faster.
Final school exams are typically seen as a very intense period of preparation. But it is also important to rest during this time if you want to maximise your performance.
Fires in Canada have sent smoke across several US states, leaving cities including New York, Chicago and Denver with some of the worst air quality in the world – even far from the flames.
Kate Winslet held her breath for an impressive 7 minutes and 15 seconds while filming, but the current world record is over 24 minutes. Here’s how people learn to stay underwater for extended periods of time.
The brain’s somatosensory cortex may help enrich our emotional experiences and improve our mental health. Mindfulness and dance movement therapy may be effective ways to activate it.
Exercise might be the last thing on your mind if you’re at home with COVID. But these gentle breathing exercises can help.
Opioids can cause death by slowing breathing to dangerously low levels, or stopping it altogether. Examining one area of the brain may eventually lead to safer painkillers.
Photos from the early 1900s show LA’s forests of oil derricks. Hundreds of wells are still pumping, and new research finds people living nearby are struggling with breathing problems.
Theatre and audiences are slowly beginning to share the same airspace again. We are freshly conscious of breath, but it has always been intimately linked with the dramatic arts.
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