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Nitrogen is the chemical element of atomic number 7. It is colorless, tasteless, and odorless, and as a diatomic gas is relatively inert. It also makes up 78% of the atmosphere and is a constituent of organic compounds found in all living tissues.
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MAY 14, 2018
Plants & Animals
As you drive down the road and gaze off to the side, you may see a variety of plants growing near the roadside. But new
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 09, 2018
Plants & Animals
Beavers have a reputation for using their razor-sharp teeth to gnaw at nearby trees and build wooden dams across natural
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 02, 2018
Microbiology
Nematodes are tiny worms, and the floors of the world's oceans are crawling with them.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 23, 2018
Earth & The Environment
Grasslands cover about a quarter of the world’s land and are the most agriculturally important biome. Though they
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 19, 2018
Health & Medicine
There's a lot of fish in the Great Lakes that are ingesting high amounts of antidepressants, but it's not making
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
APR 16, 2018
Chemistry & Physics
Although energy and industry sectors are often to blame for producing excessive greenhouse gas, agriculture, on th
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
APR 07, 2018
Earth & The Environment
Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts was made famous by Henry David Thoreau after his experience of living shore-side
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 04, 2018
Plants & Animals
Earth’s mountaintops generally exhibit harsher environmental conditions than we’d anticipate at normal eleva
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 27, 2018
Technology
Mitton's reactor is already being deployed in Florida to remove phosphorous and nitrates from lakes.
Written By:
Julia Travers
MAR 26, 2018
Videos
MASER is a LASER equivalent in microwave electromagnetic spectrum, and its generation device was invented much before th
...
Written By:
MAR 17, 2018
Microbiology
It’s estimated that by 2050, there will be almost 10 billion people on the planet, and they will all need to be fe
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 16, 2018
Technology
With the use of specialized satellites, companies and governments can keep careful tabs on emissions.
Written By:
Julia Travers
MAR 12, 2018
Plants & Animals
Poaching is a widespread issue affecting elephants in Central Africa, but a new paper published in the journal Conservat
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 11, 2018
Space & Astronomy
The launch of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is quickly approaching, and as you can probably imagine, astronome
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 12, 2018
Chemistry & Physics
Conspiracy theorists believe that "chemtrails", the line-shaped clouds emitted from jet aircraft engines, are
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
JAN 18, 2018
Chemistry & Physics
According to a recently published study on the American Chemical Society journal ACS Catalysis, a team of engineering re
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
JAN 16, 2018
Chemistry & Physics
The detection of forged artworks relies heavily on chemistry techniques because many fakes seem so realistic that they a
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
JAN 09, 2018
Videos
Planetary scientists have long thought that Pluto would have a surface temperature of about -279º Fahrenheit, but the Ne
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 07, 2018
Earth & The Environment
To add another problem to ocean life, on top of plastic waste and overfishing, let’s introduce dead zones! Dead zo
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
DEC 30, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Using streams to monitor the health of an ecosystem has been in the scientist’s toolbox for a while now. That&rsqu
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
DEC 08, 2017
Technology
The new Sarco machine is made by a 3D printer and enables painless suicide for the user.
Written By:
Julia Travers
NOV 30, 2017
Chemistry & Physics
The gamma-ray emission cascades caused by lightning strikes. Credit: Kyoto University/Teruaki Enoto Lightning and radiat
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
NOV 29, 2017
Earth & The Environment
BMAA is a toxin that has been linked to several neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS, Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
NOV 28, 2017
Microbiology
Extreme microbes are organisms that can survive and even thrive in extreme environments. Extreme thermophiles are bacter
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich