Breathe in, breathe out: How respiration shapes remembering

First and foremost, we breathe in order to absorb oxygen—but this vital rhythm could also have other functions. Over the past ...
Firehouse

EMS: Is Your Patient Breathing?

Richard Bossert's street-level study of the human body's gas exchange process is nothing to sniff at when it comes to patient treatment. You arrive for a difficulty-breathing emergency. The patient is ...
Science Daily

How does our brain trigger different sighs? New findings could provide answers

One group of neurons controls various types of sighing, but they receive their instructions from different areas of the brain depending on the reason for the sigh, according to a new study. One group ...
WUNC

This week in science: humans' unique breathing, droughts and the diets of dinosaurs

It is time, once again, for our science news roundup from Short Wave. That is NPR's science podcast. Reporting this time, Regina Barber and Rachel Carlson. Welcome, you two. RACHEL CARLSON, BYLINE: ...