In a stream of southern China filled with plant debris, a pinkish river creature with wrinkly lips swam through the murk, perhaps searching for a meal or a mate. Instead, it caught the attention of ...

It’s still early days. Nobody’s suggesting we’ll all start “breathing through our butts.” But medical innovation has a habit ...

Breathing through your backside may sound like science fiction, but a Japanese clinical trial recently suggested that one day ...

Among 27 men who received 25 mL to 1.5 L of a water-like liquid known as perfluorodecalin, 20 were able to retain it within ...

Technique may enable doctors to rescue patients whose airways are blocked by injury or inflammation or whose lung function is ...

Doctors may one day save lives with oxygen delivered through the rectum instead of the lungs. A first trial shows the body ...

Japanese and US researchers have developed a groundbreaking treatment for people who can’t breathe through their lungs — by ...

Who knew that breathing from your buttcheck might help with your breath work? No, this is no bizarre yoga pose but something ...

With further testing, butt-breathing could eventually become a last-resort lifesaver for patients with severe lung disease, proving once again that science sometimes finds the most unusual ways to ...

The technique sounds so outlandish that it won an IgNobel prize in 2024. But the science behind rescuing people with blocked airways and clogged lungs ...

A technique seemingly pulled from a comical science fiction story might soon become reality: butt breathing. What began as a project born of pure curiosity, even earning the satirical Ig Nobel Prize ...

Features hidden cranks and levers to animate lifelike underwater scenes. Includes four tropical fish, sea plants, a treasure chest, and a playful crab. You could probably buy a small tropical ...