MIT chemists have devised an environmentally friendly way to generate white phosphorus, a critical intermediate in the manufacture of products such as herbicides, lithium-ion batteries, and even ...

Carlos D. M. Filipe, Glen T. Daigger, Evaluation of the Capacity of Phosphorus-Accumulating Organisms to Use Nitrate and Oxygen as Final Electron Acceptors: A Theoretical Study on Population Dynamics, ...

Instead, the circulation of carbon dioxide, oxygen and phosphorus between Earth’s atmosphere, oceans, rocks and the simplest of photosynthesizing life forms is sufficient to produce the dramatic ...

Earth-based cell membranes are made of phospholipids: molecular chains with phosphorus-oxygen heads and carbon-chain tails that bind to each other to form a flexible membrane in water.