A tiny salmon parasite has become the first animal proven to survive without oxygen, overturning long-held biology ...

In A Nutshell Woodpeckers exhale forcefully with every peck, using the same “grunting” technique tennis players use to boost their serve power They take miniature breaths lasting just 40 milliseconds ...

Respiration is the physiological process through which oxygen in the environment can be exchanged with carbon dioxide from an organism. This process requires specialized organs such as the lungs or ...

Draper and Whitehead and their co-workers 1 have described a phenomenon which they have called ‘diffusion respiration’. In experiments with dogs, they have shown that the blood under certain ...

Breathing acts as a pacemaker for our brains, so if you find your mind running wild with stress and worry, it might be time ...

In India alone, several metropolitan areas regularly record dangerously high Air Quality Index (AQI) levels during winter.

Shortness of breath can be caused by problems in the heart, lungs, blood, muscles or even a panic attack. Determining the ...

Some muscles, like our arm muscles, we can choose whether to move or not. Muscles are found all over our body and do some important jobs: They help our body to move. They help to keep our body ...

In a world where screens are unavoidable, posture-conscious habits can go a long way, as a healthy spine today will lead to a strong tomorrow.

The Yerkes-Dodson law is a psychological principle that describes the relationship between arousal (not that kind of arousal) and performance. Too much stress, and performance declines. But up to a ...