Researchers discover neon green cyanobacteria in Carlsbad Caverns thriving in total darkness by photosynthesizing with invisible near-infrared light.

Rising sea temperatures are causing coral reefs around the world to bleach. For the first time, a research team at the Research Neutron Source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II) at the Technical University ...

A setup for leaf photosynthesis measurement using a portable photosynthesis system in a growth chamber and light measurement by a ...

"Energy transition" is a very common term but has no official definition. This article reviews the four key theories and what they tell us about the present and future.

We’re used to green plants, but that color is shaped by our Sun. On planets orbiting different types of stars, photosynthesis could evolve to absorb different wavelengths of light — producing red, ...

Chinese researchers have built a working version of what oil companies have chased for decades: a device that uses sunlight to turn carbon dioxide into the building blocks of gasoline. Instead of ...

Martin Kamen and Samuel Ruben's discovery of the radioactive isotope carbon-14 in 1940 helped usher in a new era of dating ...

In the study, primary author Jennifer K. McWhorter of the University of Miami's Cooperative Institute for Marine and ...

During Australia's unprecedented heat wave in late January, air temperatures reached 50°C in inland South Australia.

It's been a dry, warm and windy winter in Fort Collins. Have you watered your trees or plants yet?

This past week’s cold temperatures definitely got low enough to damage the tropical and subtropical plants that make up our ...

For over two centuries, photosynthesis has remained a frontier of inquiry for biologists, biochemists, chemists, and physicists alike. However, we have ...