Scientists create AshPhos, a molecule that makes drug production cheaper and faster by optimizing key carbon-nitrogen bonds.

Most people have experienced the simple pleasure of giving themselves a chipmunk voice with helium, but there's also a gas that does the opposite.

Urea, with the formula CO(NH 2) 2, is a chemical compound that is widely ... step process that entails the synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen (N₂) and its subsequent reaction with carbon dioxide ...

Three people died and over 50 others fell sick as toxic gas leaked from a tanker parked at a chemical factory in Beawar district of Rajasthan, an official said. He said the factory owner and two ...

Caroline Tillman/The Federal Public Defender's Office for the Middle and Western Districts of Louisiana Louisiana has executed a convicted murderer using nitrogen gas, a first in the state's ...

Nitrogen gas had only been used in death row executions four times before Tuesday, all in Alabama. Last year, the method was used to execute Carey Dale Grayson for the killing of Vickie DeBlieux ...

A Louisiana death row inmate on Tuesday was executed with nitrogen gas, a method that has never been used before in the state. "Louisiana has successfully used nitrogen hypoxia to carry out the ...

When Louisiana carries out the execution of Jessie Hoffman on March 18, he will be strapped to a gurney, fitted with a gas mask and forced to breathe in nitrogen gas until his heart stops.

While some states have passed or are considering legislation to allow nitrogen gas executions, it is uncertain how widely the method will be used. Public support for the death penalty is declining ...

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Many of their loved ones, she said, were killed using gas. Today, Lewis is a member of the Jews Against Gassing Coalition, a New Orleans-area group decrying the state’s efforts to use nitrogen ...