Chinese fertilizer industry groups are urging major producers to suspend exports of phosphate-based farm nutrients, in a move to ensure adequate domestic supply and cool prices ahead of spring ...

In a victory for America’s farmers and fertilizer industry, phosphate has been included, along with potash, on a list of 60 minerals deemed as critical to U.S. security. The addition of phosphate on ...

After testing some of the first gladiator remains found, forensics anthropologist Fabian Kanz discovers that some bones contained unusually high levels of strontium. Gladiators may have been consuming ...

TUNIS, March 5 (Reuters) - Tunisia aims to raise phosphate production about five-fold to 14 million metric tons in 2030, the government said on Wednesday, part of a plan which seeks to restore the ...

Scientists have created a groundbreaking map of strontium isotopes found across sub-Saharan Africa—which could help descendants of enslaved people reconstruct their family histories. Strontium is an ...

Temporomandibular joint osteoarthritis (TMJOA) is a debilitating condition that causes severe joint pain, restricted mobility, and progressive cartilage degradation. Despite its significant impact on ...

1 University of Nottingham, Faculty of Engineering,, United Kingdom 2 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, ISIS Facility, United Kingdom Conclusion: Replacing CaO with SrO exerted little effect on the ...

Introduction: Since strontium was discovered to exert a stimulating effect on the bone turnover [1] a number of approaches have been proposed to obtain Sr-releasing bone cements for the local delivery ...

A little-known element is shedding light on the transatlantic slave trade. Researchers have assembled a map of strontium, a naturally occurring element, across sub-Saharan Africa. These data can be ...

UC Santa Cruz Anthropology Professor Vicky Oelze prepares samples for a strontium isotope analysis. Postdoctoral fellow Xueye Wang and UCSC graduate and undergraduate students processed hundreds of ...