Oxygen toxicity and sheer panic are among the potential factors that could have led to the deaths of five Italian tourists who vanished on a daring scuba dive in the Maldives, experts say.

In this stanza, Darwin links oxygen to warmth and heat–an apt metaphor, since without either life ceases to function. However, we now know that life exists in a relatively narrow range of temperature ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—March 8, 2023—When it comes to oxygen, you can have too much of a good thing. Breathing air that contains higher levels of oxygen than the usual 21 percent found in Earth’s ...

A research volunteer sits in a water-immersion tank designed to simulate underwater conditions. With support from the Office of Naval Research, Dr. Blair Johnson (not pictured), of the University at ...

Oxygen toxicity and sheer panic are among the potential factors that could have led to the deaths of five Italian tourists who vanished on a daring scuba dive in the Maldives, experts say.