Could other stuff replace blood transfusions for anemia?

Blood transfusions save lives, but there's short supply. What if transfusions don't always require blood? New research indicates an alternative.

Danielle Torrent Tucker-Stanford • futurity
Oct. 26, 2021 ~7 min

Could other stuff replace blood transfusions for anemia?

Blood transfusions save lives, but there's short supply. What if transfusions don't always require blood? New research indicates an alternative.

Danielle Torrent Tucker-Stanford • futurity
Oct. 26, 2021 ~7 min


Low oxygen is pushing fish into shallower water

As the ocean warms, oxygen concentrations go down. Fish are already moving into shallower waters, new research indicates.

Harrison Tasoff-UC Santa Barbara • futurity
Sept. 21, 2021 ~8 min

Were ancient volcanoes behind Earth’s first whiff of oxygen?

Erupting volcanoes, and not a geologic or chemical process, may have led to the first puff of oxygen in the atmopshere of the early Earth.

Hannah Hickey-U. Washington • futurity
Aug. 26, 2021 ~7 min

Yukon fossils reveal 120 million years of evolution and O2

A trove of fossils from the Yukon sheds light on the time when land plants and complex animals first evolved on Earth.

Josie Garthwaite-Stanford • futurity
July 13, 2021 ~9 min

Ladybug-sized implant measures oxygen deep inside the body

A wireless device smaller than a ladybug could help doctors monitor tissue oxygen in transplanted organs and provide an early warning of transplant failure.

Kara Manke-Duke • futurity
April 15, 2021 ~7 min

Extra oxygen for mom during birth doesn’t benefit baby

An analysis of 16 previous studies indicates that giving supplemental oxygen to mom during childbirth doesn't benefit the baby.

Kristina Sauerwein-Washington University • futurity
Jan. 5, 2021 ~7 min

‘Pickling’ locks carbon in oxygen-free ocean depths

Collecting sticky stuff from areas of the ocean that have no oxygen shed light on how these zones trap carbon in sediment and rocks.

Sonia Fernandez-UCSB • futurity
Dec. 18, 2020 ~8 min


System can get oxygen and fuel from salt water on Mars

An electrolysis system can pull oxygen and fuel from briny water, just like the H2O on Mars. The tech also opens up oceans as a fuel source here on Earth.

Sara Savat-WUSTL • futurity
Dec. 1, 2020 ~7 min

3 factors shed light on COVID-19 oxygen level mystery

Researchers have begun to solve the mystery of how COVID-19 causes "silent hypoxia," where oxygen levels in patients become abnormally—and dangerously—low.

Jessica Colarossi-Boston University • futurity
Oct. 14, 2020 ~8 min

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