Scientists Solve an Origin of Life Mystery
Seawater might have supplied the phosphorus required for emerging life. Researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Cape Town may have found a solution to…
Seawater might have supplied the phosphorus required for emerging life. Researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Cape Town may have found a solution to…
All the chemical elements in the universe, except for hydrogen and most of the helium, were produced inside stars. But among them, there are a…
Life Could Have Emerged From Lakes With High Phosphorus Life as we know it requires phosphorus. It’s one of the six main chemical elements of…
When Hennig Brandt discovered the element phosphorus in 1669, it was a mistake. He was really looking for gold. But his mistake was a very…
A model helps researchers look at optimal ways to mine phosphate rock sustainably. If you wanted to really mess with the world’s food production, a…
A team led by engineers at the University of California San Diego has used data mining and computational tools to discover a new phosphor material…
Researchers that claimed that the GFAJ-1 bacterium had a preference for arsenic instead of phosphorous in its DNA have been somewhat refuted. A new study…
18 months after the controversy started, it’s become official that the arsenic-tolerant bacterium, GFAJ-1, found in California’s Mono Lake, cannot live without phosphorous. It was…