When snow blankets the landscape, it may seem like life slows down. But beneath the surface, an entire world of activity is ...

After the many things that NASA's OSIRIS-REx team went through, its spacecraft has now gone full circle as it returned to Earth on Sunday with a capsule containing precious asteroid Bennu samples. The ...

Earth as we know it is nearly 4.6 billion years old, and the air around us suited near perfectly for life, with the proper ...

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 ...

Researchers may have just spotted the elusive, ephemeral nucleus of nitrogen-9 for the first time. With seven protons and two neutrons, the lopsided atomic nucleus of nitrogen-9 pushes the limits of ...

Researchers showed that teosinte gene fragments in modern corn suppress nitrifying and denitrifying soil bacteria, reducing ...

Nitrogen rich soils in China’s rice paddies could help farmers grow the same amount of rice with less fertilizer, if we can ...