Scientists at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland have designed an artificial lung that uses air instead of pure oxygen as a ventilating gas--an advance that could turn accompanying oxygen ...

Oxy-Fuel Combustion in Once-Through Steam Generators (OTSG) proposes using pure oxygen instead of solvents for steam generation to capture CO2, resulting in near zero emissions with a 99% capture rate ...

MIAMI - Air is just air, right? Not exactly. The air we breathe is 21% oxygen, but the air in a hyperbaric chamber is 100 % pure oxygen and the pressure is kicked up a notch. Bryan Mugione says ...

Three astronauts died in a fire during an Apollo 1 test. The fire was caused by a faulty spacecraft design and pure oxygen atmosphere. The tragedy led to significant safety improvements in spacecraft ...

Despite anecdotal reports that hyperbaric oxygen chambers can be used to treat concussions, strong evidence is mounting that they don’t. The latest strike against the increasingly popular therapy is a ...

Lyon (south-eastern France): the Edouard-Herriot Hospital is equipped with an hyperbaric chamber manufactured by the German company Haux. Patient in a wheelchair. (Photo by: Andia/Universal Images ...

It's a potentially fatal mixture: high levels of pure oxygen flowing through tubing, and the flame from a lit cigarette. In the wake of three fatal oxygen fires in York County since the beginning of ...