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Mammalian Diving Reflex has announced the World Premiere of its newest performance, Walk With Me While I Remember You, presented in collaboration with Evergreen. In Walk With Me While I Remember You, ...

This group called Mammalian Diving Reflex has done projects on and off in Australia over the last few years, and this year they've been at the Perth International Arts Festival. What they do is create ...

The mammalian dive reflex is the mechanism aquatic mammals, such as seals and dolphins, use to dive underwater: Heart rates slow, blood is shunted to vital organs and the lungs fill with plasma on ...

We can now monitor what happens inside diving animals in unprecedented detail thanks to a non-invasive way of recording blood flow and oxygen levels in their brain. The first study with this device ...

This reflex allows us to stay under water for extended periods of time and is triggered specifically by cold water on the face. The heart rate slows down 10% to 25%, lessening the need for oxygen. A ...

In this dialogue-style theatre performance, courageous senior citizens talk candidly about sex in hopes of convincing the younger generations that life doesn’t need to be taken seriously all the time.

Hold your breath and submerge your face in cold water and your heart will immediately slow down by as much as 25 per cent. This is known as the “diving reflex” and it’s something we share with other ...