Despite claims of being humane and painless, the use of nitrogen gas for executions and assisted suicide causes air hunger, panic and violent physiological distress.

A research group led by Prof. Li Xiangyang from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ...

A team of researchers has discovered a new way to make valuable industrial chemicals from propylene using a common, low-cost ...

Between 29 June and 9 July 2025, LHC physicists pushed the study of the quark–gluon plasma into new territory.

A research team led by Prof. Li Chao from East China Normal University has uncovered the origin of voltage decay in P2-type ...

The idea sounds absurd, even gross to some, but researchers in Japan say it could help patients with severe lung failure.

Researchers completed the first human trial of enteral ventilation, a process in which oxygen is delivered to the body through the rectum.

Among 27 men who received 25 mL to 1.5 L of a water-like liquid known as perfluorodecalin, 20 were able to retain it within ...

Enteral ventilation, or breathing through the butt, is an Ig Nobel-winning technique that may have merit in helping deliver ...

An unconventional method of delivering oxygen rectally, known as "enteral ventilation," is advancing through human clinical ...

Breathing through your backside may sound like science fiction, but a Japanese clinical trial recently suggested that one day ...