UNSW engineers have tackled a longstanding problem at the heart of global agriculture: how to make urea for fertilizer ...

Synthetic nitrogen fertilizers such as urea help feed about half of the world’s population. But making urea is a multistep endeavor that consumes copious amounts of energy and emits large amounts of ...

Scientists and engineers have devised a new method for making urea that is more environmentally friendly than today's process and produces enough to be competitive with energy-intensive industrial ...

Urea reacts extremely quickly under the conditions that existed when our planet was newly formed. This new insight furthers our understanding of how life on Earth might have begun. Researchers from ...