Each Olympic cycle, athletes and support staff chase the latest cutting-edge knowledge in pursuit of Gold. In the Winter Olympics, both environmental (ie, cold) and sport-specific constraints present ...

Many factors, including age and activity levels, affect a person’s respiratory rate. Adults usually take between 12–20 breaths per minute, but children tend to breath faster. The respiratory rate is ...

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 ...

People’s heart rates and breathing can sync up with shared experiences. Researchers wonder about how often this happens. A series of studies suggest that participants’ heart rates fluctuate in the ...