Tag: phosphorus
Brother, Can You Spare a Nickel? It’s Essential for Life, and Likely an Indicator of Intelligent Design
Nickel is an essential element in the human body, but too much is toxic. Here’s another element our planet had to provide.
The Phosphorus Cycle: Cause or Effect?
Phosphorus, oxygen, and microbes cooperate in a delicate balance that sustains our productive biosphere. How did they come to interact?
How the Earth Operates Supply Chains for Life
It’s no help having essential elements in the Earth’s crust if they can’t get to the organisms that need them.
Is There Enough Phosphorus for Us?
The element phosphorus, on which life heavily depends for its codes and metabolic processes, is a limiting factor for complex beings on habitable planets.
Rare Earth: How Vital Minerals “Evolve”
It’s intriguing that life as we know it depends on a seemingly un-natural distribution of minerals.