Oxygen isotopes data enable researchers to look far back into the geologic past and reconstruct the climate of the past. In ...

Researchers have retrieved samples of 1.4 billion-year-old air from ancient crystals and found something surprising about a ...

Discover how the diving bell spider constructs a silk platform underwater and uses it to trap air and make a diving bell.

The air we breathe seems infinite and unchanging, but scientists monitoring Earth’s oxygen levels are seeing something deeply ...

Fish are usually confined to water as their primary habitat, but a small group defies that rule in surprising ways. These ...

For the first time, researchers have managed to isolate and directly observe individual oxygen atoms inside liquid water, ...

Humans have lots of basic requirements that need to be met in order to stay alive. Food is a necessary one, though it’s possible to go without for great stretches of time. Water is more ...

More than a billion years ago, a shallow basin in what is now northern Ontario held a subtropical lake. The setting likely ...

You are taught early in science that oxygen on Earth comes from sunlight. Plants, algae, and cyanobacteria use light to split water and release oxygen, shaping the atmosphere and making complex life ...

Given the totality of energy production, nuclear energy is very safe, but when things go wrong, they go very wrong as ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Dense toxic smog blanketed India’s capital on Monday, pushing air pollution levels to their worst levels in weeks, disrupting travel and causing authorities to impose the strictest ...

False-color laser images showing detected atomic oxygen concentrations in water.Myers, B., Dogariu, A., Beeler, B. et al. Scientists have captured the first-ever image of individual atomic oxygen ...