Breathing through your backside may sound like science fiction, but a Japanese clinical trial recently suggested that one day it might help human beings with lungs that can’t get enough oxygen. The ...

Humans can "catch" fear from robots, new research has shown. The findings—by a team of psychologists from the University of ...

The idea sounds absurd, even gross to some, but researchers in Japan say it could help patients with severe lung failure.

Just like fingerprints, your breathing patterns may be a unique identifying feature. Scientists have found they can identify people with 96.8% accuracy using only their breathing patterns. And it's ...

Alveoli are the basic functional units of the human respiratory system, acting as tiny air sacs that exchange gases. Air inhaled through the mouth and nose flows into the lungs through the branched ...

The mere motions of breathing are known to influence vital functions of the lungs, including their development in babies, the production of air-exchange-enhancing fluid on their inner surfaces, and ...

Hyperpnea is the term for taking deeper breaths than usual, which increases the volume of air in the lungs. This condition is often a response to an increase in metabolic demand when the body needs ...