Unlike us, plants don't need pantries full of food to stay alive; the Sun is their pantry. But, like us, they require fairly regular sustenance, which they create via photosynthesis. This seemingly ...

Photosynthesis is the process that plants, algae, and even certain species of bacteria use to convert sunlight into oxygen and chemical energy stored as sugar (aka gluclose). But what are the ...

A team used light and water to convert acetylene into ethylene, a widely used, highly valuable chemical that is a key ingredient in plastics. While this conversion typically requires high temperatures ...

Hancock, N.H. — Nanotechnologists have recently succeeded in their attempts to build molecular systems based on highly efficient versions of the molecular “machine” that plants use to turn sunlight ...

Solar panels are an increasingly popular way to generate electricity from the sun’s energy. Although humans are still figuring out how to reliably turn that energy into fuel, plants have been doing it ...

For decades, scientists believed that nearly all oxygen on Earth is produced through photosynthesis — a process driven by sunlight and carried out by plants, algae, and cyanobacteria. According to ...

Did you know that the deep ocean can produce oxygen without the need of solar light nor photosynthesis? According to a study ...

Northwestern University researchers have taken inspiration from plants to revolutionize the way an important industrial chemical is made. In a first for the field, the Northwestern team used light and ...