Metals may seem tough, but given enough time even plain old air can be their undoing. An MIT team has found that aluminum can be protected from oxidation by a thin coating of aluminum oxide, which acts like a liquid, flowing to fill any gaps as they form.
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Billions of years ago, the Great Oxygenation Event wiped out most life on Earth at the time. This ramped up about 2.5 billion years ago, but now scientists have discovered signs of the oldest known “oxygen oasis” in South Africa, showing that the process started almost half a billion years earlier.
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What initially started out as a MIT research project has now become the Humon Hex, a fitness wearable that can measure how an athlete’s muscles are using oxygen in real time.
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Researchers at MIT have developed a new membrane-based system that can convert carbon dioxide emissions into useful alternate fuels. The process has been effectively demonstrated on a small-scale and the researchers hope to ultimately adapt the system to conventional fossil fuel-based power plants.
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If help comes quickly enough, the heart can be restarted after a person has officially died, but the resulting brain damage can be devastating. Now doctors have successfully reversed the brain damage of a two-year-old drowning victim, using oxygen therapy techniques.
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Sea spiders already look decidedly alien, like they’re about to latch onto your face, but now scientists have found they’re equally bizarre on the inside. With weak hearts, the crafty creatures instead use a sprawling system of guts to pump blood and oxygen throughout their bodies.
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For many adventurers, scaling Mount Everest is an endurance test like no other. For the Sherpas, it’s all in a day’s work. After all, they routinely set the record for the fastest and most ascents. So how do they do it? According to a new study, the answer could literally be in their blood.
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Imagine having a fridge-sized box in your home that generates and stores electricity, heats and cools the house, provides hot water and churns out oxygen and hydrogen to use or sell. New Atlas spoke to two of the minds behind this potentially game-changing "Swiss army knife" of energy production.
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Naked mole-rats are long lived for their size, resistant to cancer and pain, and, according to a new study, they’re basically half-plants. Deprived of oxygen, the enter into suspended animation and use a survival technique previously only thought possible in plants.
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Researchers have developed a solar-powered oxygen concentrator to treat severe pneumonia and put it to use in hospitals in Uganda, where it is already supplying those desperately in need with round-the-clock care.
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