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 ...

Nitrogen is an important component of the global environment, affecting agriculture, climate, human health, and ecosystems.

What does nitrogen do for plants? Read on to learn how to improve the health of your plants and how to add nitrogen to soil by fixing the nitrogen cycle in your garden. This article is also in audio ...

Ammonia (NH₃) is vital for agriculture, as it is the basis for fertilizers that are needed to feed the world's population. Currently, ammonia is mostly produced by the Haber-Bosch process, which turns ...

Chemists offer two new methods to develop a way to easily replace a carbon atom with a nitrogen atom in a molecule. The findings could make it easier to develop new drugs. For years, if you asked the ...

From left: UChicago chemists Mark Levin, Jisoo Woo, and Tyler Pearson discuss techniques to swap nitrogen atoms in molecules—a change often made by drug discovery chemists. Credit: Julia Driscoll For ...

The spectrum of a substance — how it interacts with light — provides fundamental insight into its composition. A large number of molecules is typically required to obtain a detectable light-absorption ...