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Scientists investigate lunar soils to supply oxygen and fuels on the moon

Since humanity's first steps on the moon, the ultimate goal of lunar exploitation has been the establishment of a lunar settlement. However, limited fuel and oxygen supplies make human survival on the moon difficult. The artificial production of hydrocarbon fuels as well as oxygen using...

The study indicates a link between climate fluctuations and mass extinction

Researchers studying rocks in India discovered chemical evidence of a series of rapid climate fluctuations during the greatest known mass extinction event, which occurred around 252 million years ago. Michael Brookfield of the University of Texas at Austin in the United States, along with...

Game between Kuroshio intrusion and terrestrial input leads to hypoxia formation in East China Sea

The East China Sea (ECS) is affected by severe hypoxia. It exerts significant influences on living resources, alterations of biogeochemical cycles and ecosystem degradation. Previous studies have proved that organic matters (OM) decomposition in the Kuroshio Subsurface Water (KSSW) played a significant role in forming the...

Scientists find how blind cavefish survive their low-oxygen environment

Cavefish have obvious adaptations like missing eyes and pale colors. It demonstrates how they evolved over millennia in a subterranean world. University of Cincinnati researchers say these incredible fish have an equally remarkable physiology. It helps them cope with a low-oxygen environment that would kill other...

Ethers have more sustainable future due to heterogenous catalysis

Scientists optimized chemical processes to ensure they are environmentally friendly and sustainable. It is becoming increasingly important. Catalysts play a key role as they can make reactions more efficient. Osaka University researchers have reported a zirconium oxide-supported platinum-molybdenum catalyst. It can promote the selective...

What the rise of oxygen on early Earth tells us about life on other planets

McGill University researchers have discovered that a rise in oxygen levels happened in step with the evolution and expansion of complex. Their findings represent the strongest evidence that that extremely low oxygen levels exerted a limitation on evolution for billions of years. Ironstones provide insights...