oxygen

Watching an old episode of Babylon 5 recently, I began wondering about the plausibility of methane breathing aliens (specifically, methane breathing motile intelligent aliens). Science fiction is full of methane breathing aliens, but how realistic are they? To make use of methane, it'd need to...

I'm so excited! Or am I getting ahead of myself? What do you experts in biology here think are the chances of finding life? This discovery has surely improved the odds, but by how much?

I don't know if this has been discussed before - Since the failure points in both towers were on the opposite side from the aircraft impact, the side with the most intense fires I began wondering if Oxygen generators in the aircraft debris fueled the fires. As the aircraft slid across the...

I was reading an article that described the basic process of electrolysis, with an anode and a cathode in water - hydrogen bubbling off of one, oxygen bubbling off the other (in fact my son has a toy rocket that's hydrogen powered that works this way) - but the article concluded saying that this...

T.O. uses a Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber to help him heal. He did play in the Superbowl just 7 weeks after breaking his foot, he said he will be using it to quickly heal his broken finger bone. Does this work for healing in general? Healing of broken bones? Does it have any effect to restore...

Hi All, I see my flat mate paying lots of his Hard earned pay of woowoo crap. It upsets me to think a very intelligent person can do so without real evidence or medical support behind the products. He claims it works for him, so thats great - but i also suspect he's been ripped off - and any...

... according to the commercials for O2-Optix, anyway: This sounds woo to me. Does anyone know if this makes sense, scientifically?

A flammable world. Reality always trumps fantasy!

Very late Sunday morning, I was sitting in someone’s apartment talking to a girl who had just finished her night job shift. The job – selling oxygen at a local night club. I thought oxygen was free with the air we breathe, part of the deal we get for living on planet Earth. But Californians...