Tag: oxygen
The oxygen in the oceans has decreased by 2% in the past 50 years
It's like the ocean is having a heart attack.
Early life kept oxygen in check and stalled evolution for billions of years, model suggests
Evolution doesn't always procrastinate. But when it does, it's for 2 billion years.
A whole new branch of life could have evolved and died off on Earth 2,4 billion years ago
There's no proof. But the conditions were right for it to happen.
Ancient rocks reveal causes of Earth’s greatest mass extinction event
The new findings call our current theories on the mass extinction event into question.
Rocks prove Mars used to resemble the Earth a lot — but no, that doesn’t mean there was life on it
But maybe our neighbour wasn't always so red-faced after all.
Water-breathing scuba mask design still has a way to go
South Korean designer Jeabyun Yeon has just unveiled his new concept of a scuba mask that would allow anyone to ...
Big Surprise: Rosetta finds primordial oxygen on a comet
For the first time, astronomers have detected primordial oxygen gassing out from a comet
Algae and bacteria will provide oxygen for astronauts living on Mars
NASA has partnered with a private company to design and build an oxygen production facility for a Martian outpost or ...
Blowfish don’t actually hold their breath when inflated
When under threat, the pufferfish quickly inflates into a spherical shape to help it ward off and escape predators. Until now, ...
New crystal might allow us to breathe Underwater
Researchers from Denmark have synthesized crystalline materials that can bind and store oxygen in high concentrations, releasing them when needed. A ...
Injecting oxygen filled particles lets you survive without breathing
Photo: Ocean Networks Canada Without oxygen, your brain would shutdown within five minutes or so and ...
For the hive: bacteria grow altruistically for the greater good of the colony
Researchers at MIT found that individual cells in a bacterial colony will grow in a manner that is beneficial to ...
Why men have bigger noses than women
Men have noses 10 cm longer than women (on average), even with the same body size This happens because men ...
Dinosaurs lived in low-oxygen world, amber shows
An international team of researchers led by Ralf Tappert, from the University of Innsbruck, reconstructed the composition of Earth's atmosphere ...
New study claims Mars had oxygen-rich atmosphere 4 billion years ago
Scientists from Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford have analyzed the compositions of Martian meteorites found on ...
When laying the foundations for life, the Universe leaves little room for error
Light quark mass determines carbon and oxygen production and the viability of carbon-based life. Image credit: ...
Earth’s prehistoric atmosphere was covered in a haze similar to Saturn’s moon, Titan
If you think today's urban air, thickened with noxious smog, is terrible, just imagine how the Earth was filled in ...
A thrilling first! NASA detects ‘alien’ matter from outside our solar system
For the first time, a NASA spacecraft has detected matter from outside our solar system - matter that drifted from ...