BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have found that Earth's atmosphere experienced three major oxygen surges over the past 2 ...

How Earth's atmosphere transformed from oxygen-poor to oxygen-rich over a span of about two billion years has been revealed by an international team of researchers. Dr. Matthew Dodd, from The ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Oxygen is one of the many components that make life on Earth possible. However, a new study ...

A group of Dimetrodon's hunting in a Permian era environment. The strength of Earth’s magnetic field seems to rise and fall hand-in-hand with the abundance of oxygen in its atmosphere, a study of ...

New research shows that the Cambrian explosion, one of the most important interludes in the story of life on Earth, may have been triggered by a small increase in oxygen levels. Using datasets from an ...

A number of hypotheses have been used to explain how free oxygen first accumulated in Earth’s atmosphere some 2.4 billion years ago, but a full understanding has proven elusive. Now a new model offers ...

Supplies of dissolved oxygen in bodies of water across the globe are dwindling rapidly, and scientists say it's one of the greatest risks to Earth's life support system. Just as atmospheric oxygen is ...

Scientists have observed a never-before-seen form of oxygen, and its behavior could call into question what nuclear physics says about “magic numbers”. The rest of this article is behind a paywall.

With the ability to release and absorb oxygen at low temperatures, this metal oxide could improve everything from fuel cell ...