Chirality—often described as "handedness"—is a fundamental property of nature, underlying the behavior of molecules ranging ...

Researchers at Kumamoto University have discovered that a purely inorganic crystal grown from water solution can emit ...

Iron oxide in soil performs the same transformation as plants and microbes that are known to secrete enzymes to transform organic phosphorus into bioavailable inorganic phosphorus. Northwestern ...

The European Commission has tightened the rules on the presence of arsenic in food products. The allowed concentration of inorganic arsenic in white rice is lowered, while there are new limits for ...

Most phosphorus in the environment is in an organic form that plants cannot directly use, and traditional understanding suggested only enzymes could convert it into the bioavailable inorganic form.