People who climb too fast or too high risk acute altitude sickness, which can lead to life-threatening hypoxic brain injury. By using in vivo electrochemistry, researchers demonstrated that ...

DNA sequencing technology makes it possible to explore the genome to learn how humans adapted to live in a wide range of ...

Altitude training and hypoxic exposure represent a multifaceted approach in sports physiology and medical research, where controlled exposure to environments with reduced oxygen availability is used ...

Prior to recent COVID-19 travel restrictions, the Earth’s mountains attracted millions of international tourists, trekkers, mountaineers and skiers each year. When travel restrictions ease, visitor ...

Humans are not yet done cooking. We're continuing to evolve and adjust to the world around us, the records of our adaptations ...

In the thin air above 3000m, climbers battle fatigue, cold and altitude sickness, but what if the damage outlasts the expedition? A team at the University of Edinburgh has shown that even a brief ...

In the mountains of Tibet, adaptations to punishing conditions, including higher oxygen levels and unique gene proteins, are recent evidence of evolutionary adaptations.

(CNN) - Children born at 5,000 feet or more above sea level are typically smaller at birth and more likely to remain stunted than those born at lower altitudes, according to new worldwide research ...

I could feel my mind going deeper and deeper into a fog. No matter how hard I tried to focus, I couldn’t seem to make sense of the basic problems that I had been tasked with. What is the sum of 15 ...