Nitrogen is one of the primary nutrients critical for the survival of all living organisms. Although nitrogen is very abundant in the atmosphere, it is largely inaccessible in this form to most ...

Because of the tight supplies and soaring costs of nitrogen materials, Indiana farmers are taking a critical second look at their fertilizer programs. The object of such an evaluation is to insure the ...

The transfer of genes that allow nitrogen to be fixed from the atmosphere into photosynthesizing cyanobacteria could one day lead to similarly engineered crops. Plants need nitrogen-rich soils to ...

Nitrogen makes up about 78% of the Earth's atmosphere. Liquid nitrogen is very cold, so it is often used to freeze food. The boiling point of nitrogen is −196 °C, so liquid nitrogen is very ...

Manures and other organic residuals (e.g., biosolids, food processing wastes) and many commercial fertilizers available to producers contain nitrogen (N). Nitrogen is an important plant nutrient that ...

The only other prisoner to be executed by nitrogen had a similar response. By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs Alabama conducted the second execution in the United States using nitrogen gas on Thursday ...

Alabama used nitrogen gas Thursday to execute a man convicted of killing three people in back-to-back workplace shootings, the second time the method that has generated debate about its humaneness ...

There were two options: lethal injection, the default method, which Alabama had been accused of botching in the prison's execution chamber; and nitrogen hypoxia, an experimental alternative that ...

Most organisms require nitrogen to produce biological molecules, such as nucleotides and amino acids, but until recently, only prokaryotes were known to fix nitrogen from the atmosphere. “It’s a very ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alan Eugene Miller became the second man in the nation executed by nitrogen gas Thursday when the state of Alabama put him to death for a 1999 triple homicide, after failing ...

26, making him the second death row inmate in the U.S. to die using a method known as nitrogen hypoxia, according to multiple news reports. Alan Eugene Miller, who has been on death row since 2000 ...