#Oxygen

James Dinneen on the search for dark oxygen in the Moab Khotsong gold-and-uranium mine, outside Johannesburg, South Africa.

We all learned in science class that water freezes at 0 °C or 32 °F at atmospheric pressure. But what water, exactly? Even after you distill out all the dissolved salts and minerals to get pure H2O…

Owen arrives On September 23rd, 2021, my first son Owen was born. Clearly inheriting his mom’s type-A personality, he arrived on his due date at a chunky 8.75 lbs. We were over the moon. Until we weren’t. At a few … Continue reading →

Tyler Andrews, a 2016 Olympic Trials Marathon qualifier, broke the 23-year-old oxygen-assisted world record, pending verification.

Metals like copper oxidize — reacting with oxygen in the air — but gold doesn’t, thanks to a quick switch in atom arrangement on its surface.

From Independent RSS Feed: Scientists find climate change is reducing oxygen in rivers worldwide

From Seattletimes RSS Feed: Scientists find climate change is reducing oxygen in rivers worldwide

From Nypost RSS Feed: What is oxygen toxicity? The scuba diving risk that may have caused 5 tourists deaths in the Maldives

Oxygen toxicity and sheer panic are among the potential factors that could have led to the deaths of five Italian tourists who vanished on a daring scuba dive in the Maldives, experts say. Pulmonol…

Want to boost your O2 capacity in Subnautica 2? Oxygen is kind of vital on a water world, so here are all the ways you can boost your breathing duration.

Here's where to locate Zip's Blackbox and find the keycode needed to open the Tadpole Pens in Subnautica 2

The bird retina is one of the most energetically expensive tissues in the animal kingdom, yet it doesn’t use the energy advantage of oxygen. New research finally explains how this is possible.

The world's oceans are losing oxygen—and rapidly. The principal cause is the increasing warming of the oceans, which reduces the solubility of oxygen in water and increases respiratory activity.…

A high-resolution, motion-resolved MRI method provides rapid and reliable measurement of heart oxygen consumption

From The Guardian: British paratroopers land on Tristan da Cunha for suspected hantavirus case

After undergoing an innovative procedure to treat her terminal lung cancer, the 61-year-old mother is cancer-free and can walk without an oxygen tank.

Exclusive: ‘Fish sludge’ in coastal waters now has nutrient levels equivalent to those in untreated effluent of country the size of Australia, report finds

Recent episode of Dr. Mike reviewing \*The Pitt\* and a scene rebreathing with a paper bag brought this question back to mind. So, the conventional wisdom is that the human body doesn’t detect low O2 levels, but rather high CO2 levels as a result of…