History is repeating itself in the world of controversial sports records.

The catch: They breathed canisters of pure oxygen, ... they paid a reported $153,000 each for a bespoke protocol that included inhaling xenon gas to help them adjust more rapidly. Meanwhile, ...

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It was a travesty—two travesties, actually, separate but inextricably linked. In May 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, a ...

Posiva has completed Finland’s first copper canister blank for nuclear waste disposal at the Onkalo repository.

The gas is often sold in small canisters called whippets or whip-its, nicknamed after aerosol chargers that propel whipped cream out of a canister. Why do people inhale nitrous oxide?

Nitrous oxide canisters seized from the vehicle in Wantage (Image: Thames Valley Police) Government guidance states that inhaling the gas, often done from a canister or balloon, can have ...

But the use of xenon gas, promising to make the mountain even more accessible, has led to heated debate. Once the pinnacle of human endurance, Everest is already increasingly crowded and commercial.

Fries administered the xenon gas about a week and a half before departure. Whether the team’s success is attributable to xenon “is difficult to say,” Fries says.

An Oregon State Police recruitment email for the SWAT unit trumpeted fatal shootings by its members and the elite unit’s use of an arsenal of weapons. “Are you jonesing to fire 40mm less ...