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Oxygen
Oxygen: is the chemical element with the symbol O and atomic number 8. It is a member of the chalcogen group on the periodic table, a highly reactive nonmetal, and an oxidizing agent that readily forms oxides with most elements as well as with other compounds.
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JUL 20, 2015
Space & Astronomy
It was just a few weeks ago that NASA's commercial SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft failed to deliver supplies to the Internat
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 20, 2015
Videos
Although most bacteria cannot colonize in the high acidity and low oxygen conditions in brewing beer, the bacteria that
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUL 17, 2015
Microbiology
On a morning in March 2014, the South China Morning Post reported the discovery of a Megavirus, recovered from the ancie
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUL 14, 2015
Neuroscience
Circadian clocks enable all living things to schedule their days so as not to be caught off guard by sunrise and sunset.
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 05, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Those stranded aboard the International Space Station can finally sit back and relax on Sunday.
Although the ...
Although the ...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 04, 2015
Videos
Space exploration is a very important activity that humans have a big interest in. For whatever reason, we just obsessed
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 24, 2015
Earth & The Environment
Hydrogen has long been the holy grail of clean energy. The problem up to this point has been that the only economically
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
JUN 01, 2015
Space & Astronomy
The search for life on other planets is an age old quest. Astronomers, scientists, astronauts and regular backyard starg
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAY 27, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Well, it seems Elon Musk is no longer alone in non-governmental entities who are planning to colonize Mars. A new group
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
MAY 14, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Understanding the function of certain groups of non-coding RNAs will lead to a greater understanding of how certain illn
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 30, 2015
Earth & The Environment
For most of human history dams were seen as good things. They provided power, at first by mill wheel, later by turbine.
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
APR 29, 2015
Neuroscience
Nerve cells and blood vessels engage in a chemical discussion to keep healthy and avoid disease, according to a new stud
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 28, 2015
Earth & The Environment
So, we want to have a hydrogen fueled future, right? It's a truly clean fuel that doesn't emit CO2 when burned. It would
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
APR 23, 2015
Cardiology
Scientific dogma has the respiration process involving only two elements-oxygen and carbon dioxide. Specifically, the de
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
APR 22, 2015
Cell & Molecular Biology
In surprising new research on the evolution of different forms of photosynthesis, scientists have found that the prized
...
Written By:
Will Hector
APR 16, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
A new collaborative study describes a way that lung tissue can regenerate after injury. The team found that lung tissue
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 16, 2015
Chemistry & Physics
A potentially game-changing breakthrough in artificial photosynthesis has been achieved with the development of a system
...
Written By:
Will Hector
APR 15, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Coffee drinking is often associated with lower rates of degenerative diseases, from Parkinson's to cancers. Two recent s
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 10, 2015
Cell & Molecular Biology
U.S. scientists have discovered how tumor cells that mimic blood vessels could help breast cancer to spread around the b
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 10, 2015
Neuroscience
As we age, the physical make up of our brains changes. This includes changes in neural processing in grey matter, but al
...
Written By:
Will Hector
APR 10, 2015
Cancer
Biologists at MIT and the Whitehead Institute have discovered a vulnerability of brain cancer cells that could be exploi
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 07, 2015
Microbiology
Insects form swarms, fish school, birds flock together. Likewise, one species of bacteria forms dynamic, living crystals
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
APR 06, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Some muscles get all the glory. Bodybuilders show off their swollen triceps; sprinters flash their sharp-edged calves. B
...
Written By:
Will Hector
APR 03, 2015
Space & Astronomy
What are those ghostly images? NASA's Hubble Space Telescope recently photographed a set of green objects that are float
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim