Scientists have discovered a new way to make molecular oxygen (O2) from carbon dioxide (CO2) -- no green plants involved. Their findings could alter our understanding of the Earth’s early atmosphere ...

Colorado State University chemists have achieved a new feat in the realm of chemical design and synthesis: They’ve helped create the first example of a synthetic molecule, with an asymmetric oxygen ...

Earth's atmosphere wasn't always full of life-giving oxygen — it was once a choking mixture of carbon dioxide and other gases, more like the atmosphere of Mars or Venus. It's widely believed that the ...

For the first time, astronomers have found molecular oxygen — the same gas humans need to breathe — in a galaxy outside the Milky Way. Oxygen is the third most common element in the cosmos, after ...

Chemists have synthesized the first stable molecule whose chirality is solely attributed to a stereogenic oxygen, according to a new study (Nature 2023, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05719-z). Though carbon ...

The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission observed molecular oxygen (O2) emanating from Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. New Caltech research reveals that comets can naturally produce molecular ...

For the first time ever, Emory University researchers have broken through the so-called “oxo-wall” to create stable multiple chemical bonds between oxygen and platinum – once thought impossible ...

THE known spectrum of the neutral oxygen molecule consists of two well-known band systems, both of which occur in absorption, and arise from the normal state of the molecule. One of these systems, ...