The story of Earth’s atmospheric oxygenation is one of transformation, shaped by both biological and planetary forces. While scientists have long debated the causes behind the stepwise rise of oxygen, ...

“I wasn't surprised by the result.” Call it the Joao Factor. Fonseca only fed that frenzy in his press conference. “When I arrived here, my first goal was to qualify for the main draw,” he ...

A small helper for big tasks: an oxygen sensor protein protects the enzymatic machinery of biological nitrogen ... has now been able to show how a small factor, the Shethna protein II, registers ...

they have identified various ways that the toxic substance is transported into the atmosphere. Among these is a surprising route that involves previously underappreciated biological processes.

The study also finds that the time it takes for water to flow through plants (referred to as transit or turnover time) and return to the atmosphere ... professor of Biological Sciences at Chapman ...

More information: Andrew W. Mayo et al, Detection of H 2 O and CO 2 in the Atmosphere of the Hot Super-Neptune WASP-166b with JWST, arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2501.00609 Journal information ...