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Your pupils change size as you breathe – here’s why this new discovery is important

Your pupils change size as you breathe – here’s why this new discovery is important

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You have probably heard the saying that the eyes are the windows to the soul, but now it turns out that they are also connected to how we breathe. Scientists have long studied the size of our pupils to understand attention, emotion and even medical conditions. But now, new research has surprisingly revealed that they change size in sync with our breathing. Our pupils are never static; they constantly adjust in response to both external and internal factors. The most well known is that they control how much light enters the eye, just like a camera aperture. You can easily test this yourself: look into a mirror and shine a light into your eye, and you’ll see your pupils shrink. This process directly affects our visual perception. Larger pupils help us to detect faint objects, particularly in our peripheral vision, while smaller pupils enhance sharpness, improving tasks like reading. Indeed, this reflex is so reliable that doctors use it to assess brain function. If a pupil fails to react to light, it could signal a …

CES 2025: This little magnetic band will help you breathe better

CES 2025: This little magnetic band will help you breathe better

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Not everything at CES has to be some complicated technological marvel. Sometimes, there’s a low tech device that figures out a new way to do something even better than what has come before it. Take the Intake, for example. Mashable came across Intake, which bills itself as the “only magnetic nasal dilator” at CES’ Showstoppers event, where startups pitch their brand-new products. How did we find out about Intake? Well, because roughly half the attendees at the event were walking around wearing a little black strip across their nose. So, naturally, we had to check out what was going on. SEE ALSO: 12 new gadgets from CES 2025 that you can actually buy right now Intake’s purpose is simple: The company wants you to breathe better. Whether you’re just dealing with nasal congestion or have any ailment that affects your breathing, Intake is aiming to have its nasal dilator externally address that.  Mashable Light Speed Credit: Mashable The Intake goes about that in a unique way. The user simply applies two sticky magnets to their …

Spiders Can Eat, Breathe, and Reproduce Underwater

Spiders Can Eat, Breathe, and Reproduce Underwater

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This article was originally published in Knowable Magazine. Shrubbery, toolsheds, basements—these are places one might expect to find spiders. But what about the beach? Or in a stream? Some spiders make their homes near or, more rarely, in water: tucking into the base of kelp stalks, spinning watertight cocoons in ponds or lakes, hiding under pebbles at the seaside or along a creek bank. “Spiders are surprisingly adaptable, which is one of the reasons they can inhabit this environment,” says Ximena Nelson, a behavioral biologist at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. Finding aquatic or semiaquatic spiders is difficult work, Nelson says: She and a student have spent four years chasing a jumping spider known as Marpissa marina around the pebbly seaside beaches it likes, but too often, as soon as they manage to find one, it disappears under rocks. And sadly, some aquatic spiders may disappear altogether before they come to scientists’ attention, as their watery habitats shrivel because of climate change and other human activities. What scientists do know is that …

Breathe review: This one-room sci-fi film doesn’t take its MacGuffin seriously enough

Breathe review: This one-room sci-fi film doesn’t take its MacGuffin seriously enough

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To survive outdoors, Zora needs an oxygen suit made by her father Ryan Collerd/Signature Entertainment BreatheStefon BristolIn cinemas (US); on demand from 20 May (UK) Behind the hard-to-open bulkhead doors of a homemade bunker in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, live Zora (Quvenzhané Wallis) and Maya (Jennifer Hudson). If you can call it living: their every breath has to be calibrated and analysed, as the oxygen-producing machinery constructed by their missing father and husband Darius (a short, sweet performance by the rapper and actor Common) starts to fail. Earth’s oxygen has vanished. So… Source link

130 million Americans breathe unhealthy air, State of the Air report finds

130 million Americans breathe unhealthy air, State of the Air report finds

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Wildfire smoke from Canada caused dangerously unhealthy air quality in New York City and across much of the U.S. in 2023. While air quality has improved greatly in the U.S. in recent decades, wildfire smoke and other climate-influenced problems are endangering that progress. Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images Wildfire smoke from Canada caused dangerously unhealthy air quality in New York City and across much of the U.S. in 2023. While air quality has improved greatly in the U.S. in recent decades, wildfire smoke and other climate-influenced problems are endangering that progress. Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images Over one-third of Americans, or about 130 million people, routinely breathe in unhealthy air, according to the newest State of the Air report from the American Lung Association (ALA). That number is larger in 2023 than in years past, despite significant long-term and ongoing efforts to clean the nation’s air. And climate change, the report says, is making the job harder. Hotter temperatures lead to more ozone formation and can …

France breathe sigh of relief after beating Chile in friendly

France breathe sigh of relief after beating Chile in friendly

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Olivier Giroud was among the scorers as France recovered from the loss of another early goal to claim a 3-2 friendly win over Chile at the Velodrome in Marseille on Tuesday. Issued on: 26/03/2024 – 23:36 2 min The Euro 2024 favourites were left reeling after conceding just eight seconds into their game against Germany in Lyon last weekend, which they went on to lose 2-0. This time they fell behind within six minutes to a Marcelino Nunez strike, but came roaring back with goals from Youssouf Fofana, Randal Kolo Muani and Giroud, before Dario Osorio grabbed a second for Chile late on. The result will ease some of the doubts which had surrounded the French team following their flat performance against Germany, as they prepare for the European Championship in June and July. However, this was far from a first-choice French side, with captain Kylian Mbappe and midfielder Aurélien Tchouameni the only players to be retained in the starting line-up as coach Didier Deschamps made nine changes. Among those to come in were the Marseille …

Serene green: 10 ways to breathe new life into your decor this spring

Serene green: 10 ways to breathe new life into your decor this spring

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Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter If you long for a sense of being at one with nature, green could be your go-to hue this springtime. And if you’re looking to give your interiors a quick refresh and switch things up as the seasons change, there really is no more suitable shade than serene green. Whether you want to create a tranquil scheme to sink into at the end of the day, or breathe new life into your decor for chilled-out get-togethers, here are some of our top picks… 1. Nina Campbell Set of 4 Meadow Pasta Bowls, Green, £45, Next This eye-catching stoneware with glossy green glaze will make everything look that much lovelier… think creamy spinach pasta sauce for small soirées. 2. Manual Beech Wood Pepper Mill in Fern Green (available soon), and Boreal Manual Beech Wood Salt Mill in Sage Green, £44.99 each, Peugeot Saveurs A …

Volvo invests in, taps Breathe Battery tech for 30% faster EV charging

Volvo invests in, taps Breathe Battery tech for 30% faster EV charging

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LONDON : Volvo Cars has invested in UK startup Breathe Battery Technologies and will use its battery software to cut charging time for its next generation of electric vehicles by 30 per cent, the two companies said on Tuesday. The automaker did not disclose the size of the investment made by the Volvo Cars Tech Fund, the Swedish firm’s corporate venture capital arm. Breathe’s technology should be available on new Volvo EVs within the next two to three years. “This really comes down to reducing a pain point for customers,” Volvo Cars Tech Fund CEO Ann-Sofie Ekberg told Reuters. The investment in Breathe ensures “we get priorities and insights and also good collaboration… so we can be a first mover,” Ekberg said. A major challenge for automakers is that although rapid chargers can provide power to EVs faster, the software in those cars will often limit power intake to protect the battery from overheating or getting damaged. Breathe CEO Ian Campbell said the firm’s algorithm-based charging software provides greater visibility on the health of individual …

With George Floyd in mind, Bible co-editors created Breathe Life Bible

With George Floyd in mind, Bible co-editors created Breathe Life Bible

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(RNS) — Michele Clark Jenkins and Stephanie Perry Moore have known each other for almost three decades and have worked together on two specialty editions of the Bible. But more than friends and colleagues, they say, they hold each other spiritually accountable. After the death of George Floyd, a Black man killed in 2020 by a white Minneapolis police officer, the duo say they felt compelled to do something new that combined their faith and their desire to advance racial and social justice. The result is The Breathe Life Bible, the title echoing Floyd’s repeated insistence “I can’t breathe” as he was restrained with the officer’s knee on his neck. Cover of The Breathe Life Bible. (Courtesy image) The tome, set for release Tuesday (Feb. 13), introduces each biblical book with a “Breathe It In” segment and features “#Oxygen” tidbits that point to what they consider promises in the scriptural verses. The Bible includes devotions written by Christian leaders, including the Rev. Bernice A. King, daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and CEO …

‘It’s impossible to breathe’: Delhi’s rubbish dumps drive sky-high methane emissions | India

‘It’s impossible to breathe’: Delhi’s rubbish dumps drive sky-high methane emissions | India

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They tower above Delhi like monstrous mountains, feasted upon by birds, flies, vermin and cows, and emitting an inescapable stench of rot. These “trash mountains” loom so large – several miles wide and more than 200ft (60 metres) high – that they are visible from across the city. The rubbish dumps, located in the neighbourhoods of Ghazipur, Bhalswa and Okhla, are where more than 10,000 tonnes of Delhi’s waste ends up every day: everything from vegetable peelings to glass bottles, plastic packaging, batteries, broken toys and discarded clothes. Delhi residents, who frequently breathe the world’s worst-quality air, widely view these dumpsites as apocalyptic places, dark monuments to the city’s failures to deal with the mounting problem of rubbish and pollution. Children play while picking rubbish at the Bhalswa landfill site, Delhi. Photograph: Elke Scholiers/The Guardian Yet the true menace of Delhi’s towering rubbish dumps is one that is largely invisible. Satellite data shared exclusively with the Guardian indicates that the landfills of India’s capital city have become a global hotspot for emissions of methane, a …