VO2 max, the measure of how much oxygen the body consumes during exercise, has become a ubiquitous tool for professional ...

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VO2 max is an intimidating word for an easy-to-understand biometric: It’s how well your body uses oxygen when you push ...

When fire breaks out in the low-gravity, high-stakes conditions inside spacecraft or space stations, it behaves very ...

I just hit 20,000 steps!" my husband exclaims as he brags when his fitness tracker exceeds the oft-heard benchmark of 10,000 steps per day. Although I rarely get that many steps, I use my ...

In idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, 12 months of pulmonary rehabilitation increased cerebral oxygenation during exercise, ...

Long Island Sound experienced this year the lowest levels of hypoxia, or low oxygen, since monitoring of water quality began nearly four decades ago, the Long Island Sound Partnership announced.

Penn State researchers created seven new high-entropy oxides by removing oxygen during synthesis, enabling metals that normally destabilize to form rock-salt ceramics. Machine learning helped identify ...

Takanori Takebe is on a mission to find out if people can breathe through their butts. As a medical doctor and stem cell biologist, Takebe spends most of his time trying to develop lab-made livers to ...

The oxygen in Earth's atmosphere is key to making ours the only planet known to harbor life, but this precious resource is in limited supply. Although it is the best-known component of the air we ...

A common diabetes drug could dampen some of the key benefits of exercise, a new study has found. Researchers from Rutgers University discovered that adults who took metformin, a widely used generic ...