Most people who try to hitch a free flight hiding in a jet’s wheel-well die in the attempt, like the person whose body was discovered on Christmas Eve after a flight from Chicago landed on Maui. But ...

In this stanza, Darwin links oxygen to warmth and heat–an apt metaphor, since without either life ceases to function. However, we now know that life exists in a relatively narrow range of temperature ...

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When it comes to oxygen, you can have too much of a good thing. Breathing air that contains higher levels of oxygen than the usual 21 percent found in Earth's atmosphere can cause organ damage, ...

A research volunteer sits in a water-immersion tank designed to simulate underwater conditions. With support from the Office of Naval Research, Dr. Blair Johnson (not pictured), of the University at ...

FOR the past several decades there has been increasing interest in the therapeutic use of hyperbaric oxygenation in many hypoxic and some infectious and neoplastic diseases in man. 1–7 Although the ...

Alliant Techsystems has received a $10.4M technology development contract to reduce the risk to develop a non-toxic Liquid Oxygen (LOx)-Liquid Methane rocket engine that could be used on future Crew ...

Charlottesville, VA (March 19, 2013). Researchers at the Hennepin County Medical Center, University of Minnesota, and Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation (Minneapolis, Minnesota) report that the ...