Nitrogen metabolism of gut bacteria can provide health benefits. Specifically, gut microbes metabolize dietary nitrates and nitrites and prevent the formation of cancer-causing compounds called ...

The Farm Animal Welfare Council in 2003, and the European Food Safety Authority in 2004 and 2020, have previously recommended ...

Microorganisms in the Black Sea can produce large amounts of the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O). However, this gas ...

A COMMITTEE of animal welfare experts has recommended a ban on the use of high concentration CO2 to stun and kill pigs in a new report for the UK government.

The discovery of non-cyanobacteria diazotrophs underneath Arctic sea ice could change our understanding of the food web, as ...

Your every breath serves as a reminder that the atmosphere of Earth is silently carrying out its function. Since air is ...

ATMORE — The State of Alabama carried out its fourth execution of 2025 Thursday evening, putting Geoffrey Todd West to death by nitrogen gas hypoxia for killing a woman during a robbery 28 years ago.

Abstract: The detection of inert gases is difficult due to their inactive nature, which makes the preparation of the applicable gas sensor a challenging task. This work reports comprehensive ...

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man convicted of helping to burn a man alive in 1993 over a $200 drug debt was executed by nitrogen gas on Thursday. Anthony Boyd, 54, was pronounced dead at 6:33 p.m.

Alabama plans to carry out its fifth execution of 2025 Thursday evening, putting Anthony Todd Boyd to death by nitrogen gas hypoxia for the kidnapping and killing of a man that ended in flames over 30 ...

An Alabama death row inmate is set to become the seventh man executed in the state with the controversial method of nitrogen hypoxia. Anthony Todd Boyd, 54, is being executed on Thursday, Oct. 23, for ...

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