Research reveals how natural selection shaped the Bajau sea nomads’ spleens to boost oxygen delivery, helping them dive for ...

Getting enough oxygen in the water can be hard work. While fish and many other aquatic animals take air directly from the water through gills, other animals find ingenious ways to drag air bubbles ...

Together, they initiated the creation of a new report, published in Experimental Physiology, to raise awareness of the risks ...

In 2022, Edinburgh University professor Andrew Baker, one of the authors of the report, and his daughter had to rescue and ...

For many of us, swimming is a source of joy and freedom, and snorkelling underwater is a summer staple, but did you know that ...

After nearly losing his son, Professor Baker united with bereaved parents to expose 'hidden killer' of underwater blackouts.

The new and old records were set by inhaling pure oxygen to help the oxygen-carbon dioxide balance. The unaided record is ...

Earlier this year, Croatian freediver Vitomir Maričić set a world record with a breath-hold of a mind-boggling 29 minutes and 3 seconds He beat the previous world record by nearly five minutes — but ...

Scientists were driven by personal tragedy and near-tragedy to engage a key collective of experts in the field to write a new, definitive report ...