Damian Bailey is supported by a Royal Society Wolfson Research Fellowship (Grant No. WM170007). Damian Bailey is Editor-in-Chief of Experimental Physiology, Chair of the Life Sciences Working Group, ...

A comprehensive review published in Nitrogen Cycling highlights significant advances in understanding the soil nitrogen cycle, emphasizing the critical role of microbial processes and innovative ...

A photo of seven American bison grazing in Gardiner, Montana, in front of a stone arch Bison graze near Roosevelt Arch, near the north entrance of Yellowstone National Park, in Gardiner, Montana.

After more than a decade of research and collaboration, researchers from Michigan Technological University, Baylor University and Boston University have discovered that inland and coastal aquatic ...

A version of this story appeared in Volume 103, Issue 16 The problem with such a molecule, Schreiner says, is that it would be made from alternating single and double bonds between the nitrogen atoms, ...

Alan E. Miller, convicted in three 1999 murders, appeared to shake and gasp after the gas began flowing, media witnesses said. The only other prisoner to be executed by nitrogen had a similar response ...

Before Thursday, no execution had ever been carried out in the U.S. using the method, and experts have repeatedly warned that nitrogen toxicity may cause the condemned person to suffer unnecessarily ...

Phytoplankton are small but mighty. As one of the biggest drivers of primary production in Earth’s oceans, they convert sunlight and carbon dioxide (CO 2) into chemical energy, forming the base of the ...

Alabama inmate Kenneth Smith was put to death Thursday night, marking the nation’s first known execution using nitrogen gas. Smith, who was sentenced to death for his role in a 1988 murder for hire ...

Alabama will be the first state to use nitrogen in an execution. If it goes smoothly, other states are likely to follow. By Jan Hoffman The planned execution of a death row inmate by the state of ...