For plants, light is an important environmental factor not only as a source of energy for photosynthesis, but also as a ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown regulatory mechanism in plant photosynthesis in the unicellular green alga ...

Special eye drops containing photosynthetic machinery from spinach leaves have helped combat dry eye, a new mouse experiment ...

Photosynthesis is one of the most important processes on Earth. It is the method by which green plants, algae, and some ...

An international team of scientists has discovered that plants are not responding to global warming in the way researchers ...

Scientists found that water use and leaf growth drive plant carbon uptake more than temperature, reshaping forecasts of Earth ...

Two teams of researchers have revealed microscopic details of how oxygen is formed during photosynthesis, the process by which plants, algae and some bacteria harness sunlight to create the energy ...

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Researchers at Yale University have built a solar-powered device that turns carbon dioxide and ...

About 2.5 billion years ago, a pigment called chlorophyll appeared in single-celled organisms, allowing them to capture energy in the form of light and convert it into sugars. This biochemical trick, ...

A government ministry has charted out a road map that sets a 2030 goal for implementing available technologies for artificial ...

Scientists have found a way to bypass the need for biological photosynthesis altogether and create food independent of sunlight by using artificial photosynthesis. The technology uses a two-step ...