Question: What new things have you discovered that you have never known before in science?

Chris Cooper answered on 16 Mar 2010:

I have discovered lots of little things that are too difficult to explain in a short answer.

However., what I am best known for is this new fact.

Nitric oxide is a gas in car exhausts that was assumed to only be a pollutant. Some clever people got a Nobel prize for showing nitric oxide is also a signalling molecule that controls blood pressure. I showed that it could also control how oxygen is consumed inside the body.