A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

By putting a carbon atom in place of a core oxygen, chemists constructed an opioid that blocks pain with less respiratory ...

Several gold mines across sub-Saharan Africa have confirmed that they are saving up to 70% in costs by switching from ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

The conditions outside a cruising airliner are those of intense cold, thin air, and potentially lethal atmospheric conditions ...

Researchers demonstrate a low-cost, scalable and reusable catalyst to produce an alternative to traditional jet fuel, demonstrating the first production of sustainable aviation fuel from food ...

For this foraminifera species, the answer is chemoautotrophy, a metabolic process that utilizes inorganic energy sources, perhaps sulfide, to take up carbon, enabling it to survive in oxygen-free ...

Scientists at MIT have turbocharged one of nature’s most sluggish but essential enzymes—rubisco—by applying a cutting-edge ...

Oxygen isn’t just the stuff we breathe. Rocket propellant depends on oxygen, and future explorers will depend on producing propellant on Mars to make the trip home,” Jim Reuter, associate ...

South Florida's seagrasses filter water, absorb carbon dioxide, house small marine life and feed manatees — a primary source ...

Ancient limestones reveal how volcanic carbon once suffocated the oceans - offering a stark warning as modern oxygen levels ...