All around the Universe, clouds of gas and dust swirl between stars, hiding tiny, reactive molecules that could hold answers to some of life’s biggest questions. Among them are strange compounds ...

Northwestern University researchers are actively overturning the conventional view of iron oxides as mere phosphorus "sinks." ...

A phosphorus sun is an experiment that involves filling a glass vessel with pure oxygen and lowering phosphorus into it. It doesn’t always go well, but at least it’s always pretty.

But this experiment is the best scientific evidence yet that phosphorus could be the forest’s limiting factor. And that means that in the future, the forest would likely be influenced by two ...

Ancient oceans with phosphorus-rich waters may have supported some of Earth’s earliest microbial life, according to a new ...

"It was previously thought that water could react with black phosphorus, but thanks to these experiments, we can be reassured that it is oxygen, not water, that damages black phosphorus," notes ...

H. Davy, New Experiments on Some of the Combinations of Phosphorus. [Abstract], Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 2 (1815 - 1830), ...

Laboratory experiments have shown that prebiotic chemistry requires very high phosphorus concentrations, about 10,000 times more than occurs naturally in water.