Hardcore endurance athletes have tracked the metric for decades, but it is increasingly touted as a measure of fitness and health for the average person.

New research published in the American Journal of Human Biology has shown a link between certain digit ratios, in this case the ratio between the length of the index finger and ring finger, and oxygen ...

The brain has a high energy demand and reacts very sensitively to oxygen deficiency. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich neurobiologists have now succeeded for the first time in directly ...

2 Department of Teacher Education and Sport, Sogn og Fjordane University College, Sogndal, Norway 3 Institute of Sport and Physical Activity Research, Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, ...

Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania say they have developed a novel optical method that uses a pair of macromolecular phosphorescent probes for the real-time monitoring of cerebral metabolic ...

SEASONAL acclimatization of oxygen consumption to temperature has been demonstrated in poikilotherms by many authors, and its profound ecological significance is widely recognized 1–5. But most such ...