“Wildly Fluctuating” Oxygen Levels May Have Accelerated Animal Evolution
Oxygen levels in the Earth’s atmosphere are likely to have “fluctuated wildly” one billion years ago, creating conditions that could have accelerated the development of early…
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Scientists Uncover New Information Regarding an Ancient Mass Extinction Event
Ancient mass extinction was preceded by a drop in a crucial trace element. According to a recent study from Florida State University, a major extinction…
Smartphones Could Help People Measure Blood Oxygen Levels at Home in a “Flash”
First, pause and take a deep breath. When we breathe in, our lungs fill with air containing oxygen, which is distributed to our red blood…
Surprise Discovery: Sleeping Giant Could End Deep Ocean Life
Continental movement is capable of throttling marine oxygen. A previously overlooked factor — the position of continents — helps fill Earth’s oceans with life-supporting oxygen….
New Way Invented To Produce Oxygen on Mars for Future Explorers
Converting carbon dioxide into oxygen and producing fuels, fertilizers on the red planet using a plasma-based method. A plasma-based way to produce and separate oxygen…
Ancient Source of Oxygen for Life Discovered Hidden Deep in the Earth’s Crust
Scientists at Newcastle University have discovered a source of oxygen deep in the Earth’s crust that may have influenced the evolution of life before the…
A New Method Can Prevent and Reverse Newborn Brain Injuries
Neonatal brain injuries may be prevented or treated by using a gene-targeted strategy The results of new preclinical research published on June 15th in The…
Team Chosen To Extract Oxygen From the Surface of the Moon
Following a competition, ESA has selected the industrial team that will design and build the first experimental payload to extract oxygen from the surface of…
Superoxides for Oxygen Farming on the Moon and Mars
The dusty faces of the Moon and Mars conceal unseen hazards for future explorers. Areas of highly oxidizing material could be sufficiently reactive that they…
New, High-Resolution Evidence Questions “Whiff of Oxygen” in Earth’s Early History
Analysis of the rock record rules out atmospheric oxygen before the Great Oxygenation Event. Evidence arguing for a “whiff of oxygen” before the Earth’s Great…
There’s Enough Oxygen in the Lunar Regolith To Support Billions of People Living on the Moon
When it comes to the future of space exploration, a handful of practices are essential for mission planners. Foremost among them is the concept of…
The Moon’s Top Layer Has Enough Oxygen To Sustain 8 Billion People for 100,000 Years
Alongside advances in space exploration, we’ve recently seen much time and money invested into technologies that could allow effective space resource utilization. And at the…
A Slowdown in Earth’s Rotation Could Have Affected the Oxygen Content of the Atmosphere
A long day for microbes, and the rise of oxygen on Earth. Virtually all oxygen on Earth was and is produced by photosynthesis, which was…
Unprecedented Resolution of Novel Microscope Pins Down the Miracle of Molecular Oxygen
Researchers at the University of Regensburg track the first step of the reaction of one single dye pigment with oxygen at unprecedented resolution. Why is…
Physicists Design Experiment to Pin Down the Origin of the Elements
With help from next-generation particle accelerators, the approach may nail down the rate of oxygen production in the universe. Nearly all of the oxygen in…
Archaeologists Discover 1.6 Billion Years Old Fossilized Oxygen Bubbles
Take a good look at these photos: They show you 1.6 billion years old fossilized oxygen bubbles, created by tiny microbes in what was once…
Low Atmospheric Oxygen Levels Delayed Rise of Animals
A new study reveals that oxygen levels during the “boring billion” period were only 0.1% of what they are today, providing the first evidence that…
Researchers Discover Oxygen Molecules in Dione’s Exosphere
By combining data from one of Cassini’s instruments, called CAPS (Cassini Plasma Spectrometer), researchers discovered that Dione’s exosphere contains molecules of oxygen. The researchers estimate…
