NASA’s latest discovery on Mars may be the strongest hint yet that life once existed beyond Earth. In a fossilized crater lake, the rover collected samples from the Bright Angel Formation, revealing ...

The more they spread, the more they block the ice sheet's ability to reflect sunlight. In the aftermath, the surface absorbs sunlight, further increasing the melting of ice. So, if rising atmospheric ...

Regenerating tropical forests pull carbon dioxide from the air, but a lack of nitrogen in the soil could slow this process, a new Nature Communications study has found. Restoring tropical forests is ...

Phosphorus is crucial for crop growth. But too little can lower crop yields, and too much can lead to pollution downstream.

Phosphorus is crucial for crop growth. But too little can lower crop yields, and too much can lead to pollution downstream.

Astronomers found the elusive gas on Wolf 1130C but wonder why it’s not more prevalent in other brown dwarfs Schematic of the Wolf 1130ABC triple system, composed of the red dwarf star Wolf 1130A, its ...

ABSTRACT: Phosphate nodules from the Upper-Carboniferous to Upper-Permian period were discovered in the Chamba District of Himachal Pradesh. They are hosted by the Salooni formation and are ...

Phosphorus is a nutrient most people rarely think about. Yet it touches almost every aspect of our lives—the food we eat and the water we drink. One of its most common uses is in the form of ...

Northwestern University researchers are challenging the long-held belief that iron oxides simply trap phosphorus, revealing instead that they actively help convert it into a form plants can use.

Most phosphorus in the environment is in an organic form that plants cannot directly use, and traditional understanding suggested only enzymes could convert it into the bioavailable inorganic form.