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Victims' lives in fire accidents are usually measured in minutes. In many cases, they will have to cope on their own before any rescue units can arrive on the scene.
The day humans settle on Mars may not be far away. Now scientists have researched to create oxygen on the red planet and more oxygen than NASA has done.
Humans and many other creatures are used to living in an atmosphere with an oxygen content of 20.9-21%. So what happens if oxygen levels rise or fall suddenly?
The researchers injected photosynthetic algae into the tadpoles, thereby creating a symbiotic relationship between the amphibians and microorganisms, allowing the amphib…
Your eyes can itch because harmful oxygen molecules side effect damage the corneal cells and long-term sleep deprivation leads to corneal cell death.
How long would you want to live in a cramped house where the temperature is 38 degrees Celsius and the oxygen level is only 18%?
Humans would die of asphyxiation if they breathed on Mars without a spacesuit, but that could change in the future thanks to NASA's oxygen-making device.
That's where Earth's atmosphere ends and space begins. But where is it?
Why are some creatures able to survive thousands of meters deep, where there is terrible water pressure and extremely harsh habitats?
This will shake the definition of death, especially the process of brain death in the absence of oxygen that is thought to be irreversible.
When lighting a fire, the sticks underneath ignite while the pot of water - made of metal with strong chemical bonds - remains unaffected.
Newly developed luminescent sensor technology implanted under the skin does this, and promises to be used to easily measure other levels of substances in the blood.
The 5 kg mobile device uses lunar soil, water and solar energy to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) into oxygen and fuel.
Many large deep-sea animals outnumber their relatives elsewhere, perhaps for environmental reasons or for survival purposes.
No one knew this single-celled organism could live so long. Despite the unimaginable living conditions, they still exist.