New research highlights the prevalence of maggots as an easily obtained, nutrient-rich supplement of ancient hominin diets.

A research team led by Prof. Wang Wenzhong from the School of Earth and Space Sciences of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), in collaboration with international scholars, ...

Scientists have long relied on chemical traces locked inside ancient rocks to piece together the story of early life. Fossils from the deepest reaches of Earth's history are rare, often fragmentary ...

The cycling of nitrogen in aquatic environments is governed by a series of microbial and physical processes that impart distinct signatures on the ratio of stable nitrogen isotopes (15N/14N), commonly ...

With only two neutrons to its seven protons, Nitrogen-9 represents the first known case of a nucleus that decays by emitting five protons from its ground state. Robert Charity, a research professor of ...

Human activities have dramatically altered the Earth’s nitrogen cycle since the Industrial Revolution, driving pollution, biodiversity loss, and climate feedbacks. A new scientific review highlights ...

Nitrogen fixing bacteria may have helped some cycads survive to the present day DURHAM, N.C. -- Once a favored food of grazing dinosaurs, an ancient lineage of plants called cycads helped sustain ...

New isotope analysis could verify fishmeal use, improving aquaculture transparency, sustainability reporting and consumer ...