Like many wonderful and useful scientific things, nitrous oxide was discovered by accident in 18th-century England, and much later (during the '30s and '40s) it was used by dentists as an anesthetic.

Nitrous oxide makes the wheels go round … and how! If you followed along in our first installment (January '84) on the relative merits of power augmentation with nitrous oxide injection, you already ...

Nitrous oxide canisters used to get high lie on a street in downtown San Francisco in February 2022. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) The Los Angeles City Council is considering cracking down on ...