Alabama is in line to become the first state to execute an inmate by making him breathe pure nitrogen, but death penalty experts have told Newsweek that the state's protocol is "sloppy" and labeled it ...

Twenty-two million Americans would no longer be breathing in unhealthy levels of nitrogen dioxide if they switched from gas and propane stoves to electric stoves. Robert Jackson and colleagues ...

Kenneth Smith, 58, became the first American to be executed by nitrogen gas. The Alabama attorney general said Friday that nitrogen gas is now a "proven" method of execution and that he believes more ...

An Alabama Death Row inmate filed a lawsuit Thursday that challenges the constitutionality of nitrogen gas executions, arguing that the first person in the nation put to death by that method shook ...

Nitrogen is one of the primary nutrients critical for the survival of all living organisms. Although nitrogen is very abundant in the atmosphere, it is largely inaccessible in this form to most ...

Alabama death row prisoner Kenneth Smith may only have days to live. Perhaps in anticipation of his execution, it has been reported that he is "sick in his stomach" and has been vomiting most days. He ...

For many industries, nitrogen (N₂) plays an unnoticed but vital role in inerting reactors, storing food safely, and protecting the sterility of pharmaceuticals. But what makes it dangerous is that ...

An Alabama man convicted of helping to burn a man alive in 1993 over a $200 drug debt was executed by nitrogen gas on Thursday. Anthony Boyd, 54, was pronounced dead at 6:33 p.m. local time at William ...

A federal judge in Louisiana has temporarily blocked the usage of nitrogen gas in executions, ruling the new method could cause "pain and terror" to condemned inmates. U.S. District Court Judge Shelly ...

A new study finds that UCYN-A, a species of nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria, may be evolving organelle-like characteristics. Nitrogen is a nutrient essential for all life on Earth. Although nitrogen gas ...

The shrinking sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is, overall, a disaster. But paradoxically, the melting of the ice can also fuel the engine of the Arctic food chains: algae. Subscribe to our newsletter for ...