For the average person, living at high altitude—where oxygen is sparser than at sea level—can have health benefits ranging ...

Scientists at Gladstone Institutes have developed a drug that mimics the effects of breathing low oxygen. In mice with Leigh ...

Microbial life in Yellowstone's Lower Geyser Basin may hold clues to the evolution of life's exploitation of oxygen, ...

Researchers around the world are working on new technologies to capture carbon from the atmosphere, but many approaches fall short on one key metric: their ability to scale. Nature, however, has ...

Ozone is a form of oxygen. In alternative medicine, practitioners of ozone therapy use gas or liquid forms of ozone to treat medical conditions and as a topical disinfectant. People have practiced ...

Mountaineers have long used chemicals to help adapt to altitude. Will Everest climbers now start using deadly carbon monoxide like some elite cyclists?

The governing body of cycling banned a strange method of cheating: repeatedly inhaling carbon monoxide. Yes, the deadly gas.

By exploring Yellowstone's geothermal springs, scientists discovered the microbes that reveal how life adapted to harsh conditions billions of years ago.

Scientists recently reported an unexpected deep-sea development in the Pacific: certain metallic rocks seem to be making oxygen in the dark, without light or sunshine, at the bottom of the ocean. This ...