Ethers — such as the widely used tetrahydrofuran — are mostly known in chemistry labs as inert solvents. A bimetallic base has now been shown to dismember this simple cyclic ether, breaking six of its ...

Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) bacteria, which were discovered in waste-water sludge in the early 1990s, have the unique metabolic ability to combine ammonium and nitrite or nitrate to form ...