Science news articles about 'oxygen content'

  • Fishing for Oxygen in Warming Oceans [News]

    ... that an analysis of historical records and recent samples show that as the globe has warmed, waters with low oxygen content have expanded in the tropical Atlantic and equatorial Pacific oceans. [More]
  • Selenium can trace ocean oxygen history

    LEICESTER, England, June 23 (UPI) -- British scientists say they've found the chemical element selenium can be used to determine how oceans' oxygen content has changed.
  • No oxygen in Eastern Mediterranean bottom-water

    ... depth level, the organic content of sapropel S1 decreases corresponding to an increasing average oxygen content and concomitant breakdown of the organic material. This research shows that there is a ...
  • A Good Eye for Oxygen

    ... is thus related to tumor growth, retinal damage from diabetes, and rheumatoid arthritis. It is thus important to determine the oxygen content of cells and tissues, which is a challenge to scientists.
  • The rise of oxygen caused Earth's earliest ice age

    ... effect on the climate, and also on life." Using sulfur isotopes to determine the oxygen content of ~2.3 billion year-old rocks in the Transvaal Supergroup in South Africa, they found ...
  • Oxygen treatment hastens memory loss in Alzheimer's mice

    ... Alzheimer's mice exposed to 100-percent oxygen during several 3-hour sessions ... treatment beneficially increases the oxygen content of blood during or after major surgery, it also has several negative ...
  • More oxygen -- colder climate

    ... plays an important role. It would therefore be interesting to consider atmospheric and oceanic oxygen contents much more in research aiming at understanding and tackling the causes of the current ...
  • Toxic to aliens -- but key to health of planet

    ... at the University of Leicester are using an ingredient found in common shampoos to investigate how the oxygen content of the oceans has changed over geologically recent time. The same ingredient, ...
  • Kermit the Frog on Sloths: It's not easy being green

    ... 2,000,000,000 to 3,000,000,000 years ago and are given credit for greatly increasing the oxygen content of the atmosphere, making possible the development of aerobic (oxygen-using) ...
  • Long, sexy tails not a drag on male birds

    ... to feed in flight at a plastic tube that allowed him to collect its breath, which was analyzed for oxygen content. Of six birds tested, all expended more metabolic energy when equipped with long tail ...
  • May 2009 Geology media highlights

    ... atmosphere experienced a substantial increase in free oxygen during the Archean-Proterozoic transition (2650 ... Great Oxidation Event. Although the atmospheric oxygen content was still far less than today ...
  • Biomass as a source of raw materials

    ... with an inorganic acid. Bio-oil is an aqueous, acidic, highly oxidized mixture. However, its high oxygen content and instability turn out to have a negative impact: bio-oil cannot ...
  • Biomass And Bio-Oil Would Be A Lot More Environmentally Efficient If They Were Easily Converted To ...

    Bio-oil is an aqueous, acidic, highly oxidized mixture. However, its high oxygen content and instability turn out to have a negative impact: bio-oil cannot be used directly as a liquid fuel. It would, ...
  • Extreme makeover chemistry style

    ... reaction of polyhydroxy compounds with formic acid will be a valuable alternative for the manufacture of reduced oxygen content products. However, scaling this technique up so that biomass feedstocks ...
  • Taking dex can improve high altitude exercise capacity in certain climbers

    ... 4-5 hours after arrival, and echocardiographic examinations were performed the next day. "Reduced oxygen content in the air is the major limiting factor at high altitude. Reduction in exercise ...

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