This is an artist’s impression of habitable Mars Daein Ballard / CC BY-SA 3.0 We know that at different points in Earth’s history, it had very different oxygen levels. There seem to have been times at ...

Purifying phosphorus When phosphorus is mined out of the ground, it is in the form of phosphate, a mineral whose basic unit comprises one atom of phosphorus bound to four oxygen atoms. About 95 ...

Advanced technologies and methods are helping scientists take a new look at one of the Earth's most abundant elements - phosphorus - to better understand how it cycles through soil, sea and living ...

The oxygen isotope composition of phosphate (δ 18 O p) offers a powerful tracer for elucidating the complex pathways of phosphorus cycling in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. By analysing the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Life in Earth's oceans may have had a slow start because phosphorus — a key nutrient of life — ...

Journal of Coastal Conservation, Vol. 24, No. 4 (2020), pp. 1-7 (7 pages) Inorganic forms of nitrogen and phosphorus, oxygen levels, suspended solids, and planktonic primary productivity were ...

Benjamin J. W. Mills receives funding from the UK Natural Environment Research Council Lewis Alcott does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that ...

Meteorites that crashed onto Earth billions of years ago may have provided the phosphorous essential to the biological systems of terrestrial life. The meteorites are believed to have contained a ...