For roughly 2 billion years of Earth's early history, the atmosphere contained no oxygen, the essential ingredient required ...

Slow orbital changes caused pulses in Earth's oxygen cycle 500 million years ago, which spurred explosions of animal life.

Not only did this discovery pinpoint the timber’s origin, it also exposed a pivotal shift in material strategies for the Forbidden City during both the Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, namely the switch ...

The neutron-rich oxygen isotopes oxygen-27 and oxygen-28 exist as very short-lived resonances, report scientists based on the first observation of their decay into oxygen-24 and three and four ...

Scientists at The University of New Mexico have found that the Earth and Moon have distinct oxygen compositions and are not identical in oxygen as previously thought according to a new study released ...

The article details the surprising prevalence of oxygen's green glow in celestial observations, particularly in nebulae and auroras, which is caused by "forbidden radiation" emitted by oxygen atoms in ...

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) plays a major role in the early detection of various types of cancer. A research group led by Specially Appointed Professor Katsumi Kaneko of the Research Initiative ...

Plants need phosphorus, an essential nutrient, to grow. This nutrient is present in fertilizers and applied to crops to increase their yields. One downside of too much phosphorus in this agricultural ...

Scientists have found that the Earth and moon have distinct oxygen compositions and are not identical in oxygen as previously thought according to a new study. Scientists at The University of New ...