Inhaling commercially available nitrous oxide canisters, commonly known as laughing gas, could lead to serious harm or death, ...

The agency is advising people to avoid misusing or inhaling the products that are marketed as whipped cream chargers but have ...

Nitrous oxide—also known as laughing gas or nangs—is cheap, widely available and popular among young people. Yet it often flies under the radar in public health programs and education settings. For ...

It's a cold winter morning in the bleak and bare arable fields of the East Anglian fens. At the edge of a field, a scientist ...

The FDA said inhaling nitrous oxide can result in a range of symptoms and serious health problems, including lightheadedness, ...

Candi Morris knows nitrous oxide well; as the office manager at Dental Expressions in Moore, she’s familiar with its use as “laughing gas” to calm anxious patients. But outside the dentist ...

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 ...

Some deaths from nitrous oxide have occurred after inhaling from chargers for whipped cream can dispensers. Courtesy Getty Images. It’s often called “laughing gas,” a colorless anesthetic ...