The Haber–Bosch process for making ammonia has been world-changing, but is highly energy-intensive owing to the high temperatures and pressures involved. A detailed understanding of the catalytic ...

We here on Earth live at the bottom of an ocean of nitrogen. Nearly 80% of every breath we take is nitrogen, and the element is a vital component of the building blocks of life. Nitrogen is critical ...

Billions of people rely on a single, hundred-year-old chemical reaction every day: the Haber-Bosch process. This simple, short reaction consumes 1% of the world’s energy supply and releases 2% of its ...

The Haber-Bosch process is responsible for over 1% of global carbon dioxide emissions every year, making it the biggest CO2 belcher among industrial chemical reactions. The multistep reaction, which ...

Few people change the world even once. Fritz Haber changed it twice -- for better and for worse. The first time came in late March 1909. Haber, a young professor at the Technical University of ...

The Nature Index 2024 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Nitrogen is one of the most abundant elements on the planet, but until the turn of the 20th century nitrogen compounds were still hard to come by. So-called nitrogen fixation in compounds such as ...

The reason we can feed six or seven billion people isn’t GMOs. It’s the massive increase in the use of fertilizers over the past hundred years. Most of the nitrogen-based fertilizers are produced ...