Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Phosphorus is essential; human beings can't live without it. Phosphorus is dangerous; it has been a key element in incendiary ...

Scientists have discovered phosphorus on Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn, NASA said Wednesday. The element, which is essential to planetary habitability, had never before been detected in ...

SciFri Book Club is reading The Devil’s Element by Dan Egan. There’s lots of ways to participate: Read the book, listen to our interview with the author, join our community space, attend an event, or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s time to buy a lot of candles. And if we light them with matches, it will only be possible because of the anniversary in ...

Phosphorus is both integral to our agricultural system, and wreaking havoc on waterways. Read Dan Egan’s new book with SciFri this April. The Devil’s Element brings together a range of topics, ...

Phosphorus doesn’t grab headlines like oil or water, yet the element is essential for life. Its main commercial use is fertilizer, a product that helped the world population explode during the last 50 ...

A diet that lacks even obscure elements like selenium will leave almost any creature on earth sick and hobbled, if not dead. Plants are made of the same basic stuff as animals but have different ...

Phosphorus is essential; human beings can't live without it. Phosphorus is dangerous; it has been a key element in incendiary bombs. Thanks to heavy use of phosphorus in fertilizers, many experts ...

It’s time to buy a lot of candles. And if we light them with matches, it will only be possible because of the anniversary in question. It’s happy 350th birthday to the discovery of phosphorus, an ...