Microplastics can cut a plant’s ability to photosynthesize by up to 12 percent, new research shows microplastics are ...

Princeton University and Xiamen University researchers report that in tropical and subtropical oligotrophic waters, ocean ...

Plants have been using solar energy for millions of years, but advances in machine learning and protein engineering could ...

A team of environmental researchers, Earth scientists and pollution specialists at Nanjing University, the Chinese Academy of ...

Researchers at the Salk Institute study how C4 photosynthesis could boost crop productivity and climate resilience.

Companies have been manufacturing synthetic fuels for nearly a century by combining carbon monoxide (which can be sourced ...

BEIJING -- A Chinese research team has developed a carbon-based nanomaterial from agricultural waste biomass that can enhance ...

A newly developed pentanuclear iron complex can offer an efficient, stable, and cost-effective solution for water oxidation. By electrochemically polymerizing the complex, researchers have obtained a ...

CRISPR is a technology that can be used to edit genes and, as such, will likely change the world. The essence of CRISPR is simple: it’s a way of finding a specific bit of DNA inside a cell.

Although there are many different kinds of sea slugs, only some can photosynthesize. Even beyond sea slugs, the Elysia ...

Plants need water to make their own food. This is called photosynthesis. It happens in plant leaves. Plants also need carbon dioxide from air and sunlight to make their food. Slide 1 of 3 ...