Scientists have discovered that cyanobacteria, microscopic organisms best known for driving harmful algal blooms, may play a major role in spreading ...

Soybeans have quietly become one of the most strategically important crops on Earth, feeding people and animals while anchoring global trade. Now a cluster of breakthroughs in genetics, photosynthesis ...

Life on Earth has long been understood to run on two main energy sources. One comes from sunlight, captured by photosynthesis. The other comes from chemical reactions, such as microbes feeding on ...

Ammonia, a key part of nitrogen fertilizers, is central to sustaining global food production. However, its manufacture is ...

The uneven distribution of biological nitrogen fixation in terrestrial ecosystems has yet to be explained. Latitudinal gradients in temperature and phosphorus may hold the answer. Like the ancient ...

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 ...

Nitrogen, upon which all life on Earth depends, may hold the key for explaining how early life on the planet evolved and how it could evolve on other planets.

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have identified a bacterial genus that promotes root growth and ...

In the days since ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Minneapolis resident Renee Nicole Good, corporate media appears to have decided on the narrative that divisive political partisanship makes it ...

This important study provides new insights into how Staphylococcus aureus adapts to disulfide stress through the redox-sensitive regulator Spx, which coordinates nutrient uptake, cysteine import, ...

Measles was eradicated in the Americas, Beyoncé made “Lemonade” and liberal hopes were high for the first woman president. Voters were encouraged to Pokémon Go to the polls. Remember 2016? A decade on ...

NASA-supported scientists have resurrected an enzyme first used by organisms on Earth 3.2-billion years ago and, in the ...