The oxygen isotope composition of phosphate (δ 18 O p) offers a powerful tracer for elucidating the complex pathways of phosphorus cycling in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. By analysing ...

Phosphorus in the environment is present in two forms ... For example, carbon-13 is an isotope of carbon that has been useful in determining the age of groundwater, while carbon-14 has helped ...

Along with nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus, iron is essential for the growth of microscopic phytoplankton in the ocean ...

“Phosphorus is an important element in food and national security ... To achieve these outcomes, Jaisi measured the isotope fingerprints of organic phosphate molecules using advanced mass spectrometry ...

Using radioactive isotope systems to determine the age and origins of minerals ... the global cycling of biologically important elements like carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus. Specializing in ...

They tagged the protein coating of bacteriophages with the sulfur isotope 35 S and the DNA core with the phosphorus isotope 32 P. Using a Waring blender, they agitated the viral particles and bacteria ...

For the first time, phosphorus — the rarest of six elements upon which life as we know it depends — has been found in a tiny ocean-bearing moon in our solar system. Scientists combing through ...

A key chemical building block of life has been found on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Phosphorus was detected in salty ice grains that were released into space by plumes that erupt between the cracks ...