Breathing patterns vary from person to person, similar to fingerprints. They can also reflect each person’s mood, according ...

The research, published in the journal Current Biology, showed that breathing patterns can be used to identify individuals with 96.8 percent accuracy. "We intuitively assume that how depressed or ...

Perhaps lengthy recordings of a person’s breathing pattern, as identifying information, might be covered by privacy protection laws, Dr. Sobel said. “But only if you have enough of it,” he said.

Forget facial recognition – there could be a new way to identify you. Researchers have discovered that we all seem to have a “respiratory fingerprint”, a unique way of breathing that could ...