Plants mastered the art of harvesting sunlight billions of years ago, using elegant rings of pigments in their leaves. Now, ...

Most plants split water molecules to generate energy, and now we have a clearer picture of exactly how they do it. Researches have found missing steps in photosynthesis by stimulating plant ...

Scientists have studied photosynthesis in plants for centuries ... surprised to discover a previously unknown pathway of energy flow at the beginning of the process that could enable extracting ...

found links at the atomic level between photosynthesis and exciton condensates—a strange state of physics that allows energy to flow frictionlessly through a material. The finding is scientifically ...

Water lilies growing in a pool in Mexico. Photo: Brook Peterson/Stocktrek Images (AP) What if we could mimic how plants, algae, and bacteria harvest sunlight to create better solar panels?

Scientists believe they have “hacked” one of the key early stages of photosynthesis and discovered new ways to extract energy from the process. An international team of researchers ...

close respirationA chemical reaction that occurs in the mitochondria of cells in which glucose and oxygen react to produce carbon dioxide and water, releasing energy. Photosynthesis is one of the ...

Photosynthesis is the process that enables plants to take sunlight and carbon dioxide and convert it into chemical energy to grow. Crop plants, however, are only about 1% efficient at doing this, ...

The feeding sequence, showing the energy flow from producers to consumers, is called a food chain. Each step is called a trophic level: producers are on the first trophic level 1, primary ...