If you've ever seen a modern racing film, there's a good chance you've seen nitrous used in a race or two. Here's how it ...

The Los Angeles City Council is considering cracking down on the sale of nitrous oxide — known as laughing gas, which is typically administered by anesthesiologists as a short-acting sedative.

Thomas Johnson, 19, breathed nitrous oxide in through balloons while driving at faster than 100mph on a 30mph road in Marcham, Oxfordshire, on June 23 last year. The force of the collision 'ripped ...

Scientists unearth a clue to the molecular mechanisms involved in N2O reduction by deep-sea hydrothermal vent bacteria.

Emissions of nitrous oxide—a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide or methane—continued unabated between 1980 and 2020, a year when more than 10 million metric tons flowed into the atmosphere ...

A group of residents in a Cork town are raising concerns after a large amount of empty nitrous oxide canisters were found abandoned in a local car park. An image circulating on social media snapped by ...

Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope have witnessed a massive black hole jet slam into an unknown object in space. Astronomers have seen black hole jets blasting cosmic objects ...

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Nitrous oxide is approximately 270 times more potent than carbon dioxide in terms of warming the planet and is currently responsible for approximately 10% of net global warming since the industrial ...