Sunday, October 18, 2009

Solving The World's Mysterious Nitrogen Cycle



Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) recently made a discovery that may open up the way of studying the planet's elusive nitrogen cycle. While the paths other chemicals, such as carbon, take are relatively well known, nitrogen is still a bit of a mystery in the way it takes to circle through the Earth's atmosphere, oceans and ground. The key, the experts write in the latest issue of the journal Science, may lay with an unexpected metabolic ability that the symbiotic com...
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