As a naturally anxious person, I’ve often found it frustrating when people tell me to “just take a deep breath and relax” when I’m feeling worked up. If the things I worry about could be fixed by ...

Most people think breathing during exercise is automatic and doesn’t require much thought beyond trying not to gasp for air. But the way you breathe during workouts has a massive impact on your ...

We breathe to sustain life but, aside from its most essential role, breathing supports the health of your body and mind in many other ways. More specifically, your breathing rate and patterns help ...

We inhale and exhale all day, every day, without thinking about it—but when we cultivate awareness of our breath, something ...

Breathing is something we do more or less without thinking but it may reveal more about ourselves than we might think – from our body mass index (BMI) to our propensity to develop anxiety. Scientists ...

The lack of a sense of smell, called anosmia, can be congenital or acquired at some point in a person's lifetime. Eric Horst via Flickr under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Anosmia—the absence of the sense of ...

A new study has found that breathing does more than just move air in and out of your lungs—it could even be used to identify who you are. Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel ...