Forests, grasslands, and other natural areas around the world have access to about a quarter less nitrogen than previously ...

Ammonia (NH3) is vital for agriculture, as it is the basis for fertilizers that are needed to feed the world's population.

Biological nitrogen fixation is the microbial process that makes inert nitrogen gas available to organisms, fueling primary production and enhancing carbon storage on land and sea. Although ...

Ever wanted to produce nitrogen fertilizer like they did in the 1900s? In that case, you’re probably looking at the Birkeland-Eyde process, which was the first industrial-scale atmospheric ...

Nitrogen fixation, which is an essential process for the survival of all living organisms, remains an important part of the research. “Nitrogen is incredibly abundant in our atmosphere and vital for ...

Nitrogen is essential for all life on Earth. In the global oceans, however, this element is scarce, and nitrogen availability is therefore critical for the growth of marine life. Some bacteria ...

A small helper for big tasks: an oxygen sensor protein protects the enzymatic machinery of biological nitrogen fixation from serious damage.

The research uncovered a mutated gene that keeps the nitrogen-fixation process going, even when soil nitrate is high ...

In two recent papers, an international team led by UC Santa Cruz scientists describe the first known nitrogen-fixing organelle within a eukaryotic cell. The organelle is the fourth example in history ...

The Haber-Bosch process is a remarkable and historically significant chemical process that has had a profound impact on the world. Developed by the German chemists Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch in the ...

These included studies in the aerobic nitrogen-fixing bacterium Azotobacter vinelandii by the late Dalton and inorganic chemistry studies related to N 2 fixation by Mingos, Heaton, and Paske.