NASA's Carbothermal Reduction Demonstration (CaRD) project has completed an important step toward using local resources to support human exploration on the moon. The CaRD team performed integrated ...

New research from ETH Zurich challenges the long-held “follow the water” rule in the search for extraterrestrial life. Scientists argue that a planet’s habitability depends on a narrow chemical ...

Life on Earth may have learned to breathe oxygen long before oxygen filled the skies. MIT researchers traced a key oxygen-processing enzyme back hundreds of millions of years before the Great ...

Scientists are using non-thermal plasma to produce fertiliser and long-chain hydrocarbons. Mason Wakley talks to the chemists ...

Ancient enzymes show life’s nitrogen signal stayed unchanged for billions of years, helping scientists read early Earth.

Beneath the calm waters of the South China Sea, the Dragon Hole plunges over 301 metres, hiding twisting tunnels, vanishing ...

Scientists found a soil microbe that both releases and absorbs electricity, pointing to new renewable energy technologies.

Methane emissions from wetlands are rising faster than those from industrial sources, prompting concerns about a climate ...

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The wonders of life on Earth are endless, but all that may never have come to pass were it not for the planet having the perfect amount of oxygen at birth.

As aging populations and rising diabetes rates drive an increase in chronic wounds, more patients face the risk of amputations. UC Riverside researchers have developed an oxygen-delivering gel capable ...

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection issued a notice of pollution that an Ascend power failure has led to a leak of nitrogen oxides.