This post is the second in a three-part series on how living creatures use the elements of the periodic table. Read the first post here, and learn more about the elements on NOVA's two-hour special, ...

MADISON, Wis. -- Think of an object made of iron: An I-beam, a car frame, a nail. Now imagine that half of the iron in that object owes its existence to bacteria living two and a half billion years ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. There are some 90+ elements of the periodic table that occur naturally ...

Microbiologists discover bacteria that eliminate toxic sulfide and use iron minerals to grow. An international group of researchers led by microbiologists Marc Mussmann and Alexander Loy at the ...

Experiments show how concentrations of rare earth elements, critical to the green energy transition, might be hiding in plain sight in iron-rich deposits around the world. When you purchase through ...

Elements heavier than iron, such as gold and uranium, are primarily formed through neutron capture processes, specifically the rapid neutron capture process (r-process). The r-process, unlike the ...

Researchers found that Somali nomads who ate iron restricted diets (very low in meat, but rich in dairy) had lower prevalence of infectious diseases than those that ate more meat. Dietary iron falls ...

Now, scientists have discovered that the crystal structure of natural iron minerals could determine how fast these pollutants ...