Scientists have long sought to explain a key mismatch in Earth's early history: oxygen-producing photosynthesis evolved hundreds of millions of years before atmospheric oxygen began to rise during the ...

Illustration of Fe(II)-enhanced phosphate adsorption onto phyllosilicates in Archean iron-rich oceans, a process that may have limited marine ...

Iron oxide in soil performs the same transformation as plants and microbes that are known to secrete enzymes to transform organic phosphorus into bioavailable inorganic phosphorus. Northwestern ...