On South Korea’s largest island, Jeju Island, a group of women free-dive into frigid waters year-round to harvest food from [ ...

An international team of researchers has shed light on the genetic and learned characteristics that aid South Korea’s ...

From high-altitude climbers to divers who can fish without scuba gear, scientists are finding new ways that human bodies may ...

Nature and nurture give Korea’s women divers, known as Haenyeo, an edge in deep-sea diving with high cold tolerance and low ...

A group of women on South Korea's largest island, Jeju, follow a unique tradition to put food on the table: They freedive to ...

These women dive year-round off Jeju Island, collecting sea urchin, abalone and other seafood from the ocean floor, descending as much as 60 feet (18 meters) beneath the surface multiple times ...

Past work from Ilardo has shown that nomadic Bajau divers in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines have especially large ...

The secret to tackling one of the United States’ most deadly chronic diseases may reside thousands of miles away in the ...

Trained and genetic differences could help the women survive the intense physiological stresses of free-diving—and could ...

Scientists have investigated the unique biology of the Haenyeo, women from the South Korean island of Jeju who are known for ...