Also known as nitrous oxide, this inhaled gas used to be more prevalent during labor — but at that time it was often used in conjunction with narcotic painkillers, causing complications.

Illinois leads most rigorous agricultural greenhouse gas emissions study to date ...

Encouraged by initial successes with ketamine, researchers including Peter Nagele, a professor of anesthesia and psychiatry ...

Farm soil releases nitrous oxide unpredictably. A new study shows better tracking can reduce emissions and improve climate ...

Long-term research by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign revealed how management and cropping systems influence ...

Farmers apply nitrogen fertilizers to crops to boost yields, feeding more people and livestock. But when there's more ...

Farmers apply nitrogen fertilizers to crops to boost yields, feeding more people and livestock. But when there's more fertilizer than the crop can take up, some of the excess can be converted into ...

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 ...

Despite warnings from health officials, nitrous oxide is being sold in large, colorful canisters with fruity flavors.

Recently, we learned that an oxygen flow meter had been forced into a nitrous oxide wall outlet that was directly adjacent to an oxygen outlet in a radiology suite. The oxygen flow meter's index ...

Sampling soil emissions is labor intensive and expensive ... rigorously sampling nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide emissions from commercial corn and soybean fields under practical management ...