Earth is bathed in nitrogen. It makes up about 78% of the atmosphere, and it’s stitched into every nucleotide, every cell, every living thing on the planet. But before humans learned to synthesize ...

In America, corn syrup is king, and real sugar hovers somewhere around prince status. We’re addicted to corn, and corn, in turn, is addicted to nitrogen. A long time ago, people figured out that by ...

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THE lecture delivered by Prof. F. Haber on the A award of the Nobel Prize at Stockholm on June i, 1920, is printed in Die Naturwissenschaften for December 8. Prof. Haber dealt first with the work done ...