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Participants seated on the floor practising nadishodhana, alternate nostril breathing, at an International Day of Yoga event in Kolkata in 2017

The Big ReadHealth

Six Breaths a Minute Is the Number, and It Is One of the Few Wellness Claims With Trials Behind It

Yogic breathing is unusual among wellness practices in having a measurable, replicated physiological effect. The size of it is modest, the mechanism is well understood, and a few of the more dramatic techniques carry real risk.

Sep 4, 2026/4 min read

The Diary

  1. 30 Aug – 11 DecOn now

    Riyadh, Abu Dhabi and Dubai

    The Gulf Exhibition Season Starts in Two Weeks and Runs to December

    Riyadh opens at the end of August, Abu Dhabi takes November, Dubai takes the rest. Four shows account for most of the region's commercial calendar between now and the new year.

  2. 4 Sep – 23 MayOn now

    England

    The Women's Super League Adds Two Clubs and Finds Out What Expansion Costs

    Fourteen teams instead of twelve, a season running from 4 September to 23 May, and twenty-six league games where there were twenty-two. Growing a league is easier than filling it.

  3. 2–5 NovIn 12 days

    Abu Dhabi

    ADIPEC Still Runs on Oil, Whatever the Programme Says

    Abu Dhabi's energy week arrives on 2 November with hydrogen and carbon capture across the agenda and hydrocarbons across the balance sheets. Both things are true at once.

  4. 23–26 NovIn 5 weeks

    Dubai World Trade Centre

    Big 5 Global Is Where Next Year's Buildings Get Specified

    Twenty-seven hundred exhibitors at the Dubai World Trade Centre from 23 November, and three co-located shows that have quietly turned a construction fair into an urban development event.

  5. 7–11 DecIn 7 weeks

    Expo City, Dubai

    GITEX Moves to Expo City, and Brings Seven Shows With It

    Six thousand eight hundred exhibitors, two hundred thousand visitors and four hundred government entities across five days in December. The interesting part is what has been bolted onto the side of it.

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The team used data from the Health4Life study: 6,537 students at 71 secondary schools in New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia, who were about 12.5…

How did the Rays beat the Guardians in Game 6?

Our Game 6 report has the full account; in short, with a starter who would not be hit and a home run that took its time.

What is circadian depression?

The researchers defined the subtype by features tied to the body clock: a seasonal pattern, sleeping longer when depressed, waking very tired and being a night…

How did Liverpool come back against Villarreal?

Georges Mikautadze scored inside four minutes and Sergi Cardona made it 2-0 shortly before the half hour.

What is PSR J0435+3233?

It is a millisecond pulsar, a neutron star spinning more than 300 times a second, with pulses arriving about 3.2 milliseconds apart.

How does JPMorgan's bitcoin forecast compare with stocks and gold?

On those assumptions bitcoin beats nearly everything on the menu.

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