For more than 3 million people around the world, kidney failure is a life-altering diagnosis, if not a life-threatening one. While about 17 percent of people in the U.S. with end-stage kidney disease ...

Urea reacts extremely quickly under the conditions that existed when our planet was newly formed. This new insight furthers our understanding of how life on Earth might have begun. Researchers from ...

“Can I replace some of my nitrogen in corn this spring with urea?” The farmer on the phone asks Ken Ferrie. “The short answer is yes – especially on wheat acres going to corn,” says Ferrie, Farm ...

One of the core priorities in this year’s Budget is “productivity and resilience in agriculture”. Under this, the government plans to promote natural farming, enhance the production of pulses, oil ...

WPI Researchers have developed a material to remove urea from water and potentially convert it into hydrogen gas. By building these materials of nickel and cobalt atoms with carefully tailored ...

In 1913, the German scientist Fritz Haber successfully synthesised ammonia from atmospheric nitrogen—a breakthrough that laid the foundation for modern chemical fertilisers. Since then, scientists ...

This story first appeared on Wednesday, February 19, 2025, in The Strategist Beauty Brief, a weekly newsletter in which our beauty writers share their must-tries, can-skips, and can’t-live-withouts.

Farmers in India are desperate. Trucks in South Korea had to be idled. Food prices, already high, could rise even further. By Raymond Zhong This is a story about one of those unsung forces that ...