In a hunt for more sustainable technologies, researchers are looking further into enabling two-dimensional materials in ...

Canadians may think they're intimately familiar with ice in all its forms, but there is one kind that most have probably ...

Nitrogen finally joins the elite tier of elements like carbon that can form neutral allotropes—different structural forms of a single chemical element ... synthesized hexanitrogen (N 6) via gas-phase ...

The first neutral nitrogen molecule – other than dinitrogen – has been isolated and characterised by researchers in Germany. The molecule, the most energetic ever synthesised, is effectively stable at ...

In a controversial decision, the Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that nitrogen gas does not fall under the definition of being a poison. This is despite a finding in the case that a man died from ...

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's execution marks the first time Louisiana has used the method and is the state's first execution in 15 years.

An inmate in Louisiana has been executed using nitrogen gas - becoming only the fifth person in the US to die through this method. Jessie Hoffman Jr was the first convict to be put to death in ...

Louisiana is set to execute death row inmate Jessie Hoffman using nitrogen gas for the first time tonight. Here's what to know ahead of the execution.

Louisiana plans to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmate Jessie Hoffman next week. Here's what to know about the method and why its controversial.

A federal appeals court overturned a Baton Rouge federal judge's ruling that blocked Louisiana from moving forward with its first nitrogen gas execution.

A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, such a method echoes the Holocaust.

Louisiana plans its first nitrogen gas execution on March 18 as more states consider the method. Critics call it inhumane, while officials defend its use.