If you’re lucky enough to live to 80, you’ll take up to a billion breaths in the course of your life, inhaling and exhaling enough air to fill about 50 Goodyear blimps or more. We take about 20,000 ...

When humans and other animals are in a calm state, they tend to breathe slower, and their heartbeat also slows down.

Neuroepithelial cells (NECs) represent a pivotal component of the sensory network in aquatic vertebrates, serving as primary chemoreceptors that monitor environmental and blood oxygen levels, as well ...

Breathing is a vital action, so automatic that we forget about it. However, to produce speech, breathing must be modulated to synchronize exhalation with the rhythm of conversation. In an article ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have discovered a fundamental mechanism that affects the size of the pupil, namely our breathing. The study, published in The Journal of Physiology, ...