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Scientists have developed a material with photosynthetic bacteria that convert carbon dioxide into a mineral skeleton. The ...
Shux led a pivotal experiment focusing on cyanobacteria, photosynthetic microorganisms with immense potential for ...
Scientists are designing a new living material that captures carbon dioxide directly from the air. It uses photosynthetic ...
A certain species of sea slug steals chloroplasts from algae and houses its contraband in special organelles that it can raid ...
Sustainable materials—powered by sunlight and living microbes—that remove pollutants from water, release oxygen into a wound ...
The field is littered with the corpses of startups that have tried—and failed—to make a buck out of microalgae. What makes ...
Lichen from the Mojave Desert has stunned scientists by surviving months of lethal UVC radiation, suggesting life could exist ...
Photosynthetic organisms capture light using a set of proteins and pigments called the light-harvesting complex (LHC), which is embedded in cell membranes.
Tiny photosynthetic microbes could be secretly thriving on Mars — hiding inside small bubbles of liquid water in the thin layers of dusty ice that litter the Red Planet's surface, a new NASA-led ...
Plants’ Photosynthetic Machinery Functions inside Hamster Cells. Transplanted chloroplasts endured two days inside animal cells—and got to work. By Saugat Bolakhe edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier.
New research shows climate change may be overloading the Amazon's tree canopy, disrupting photosynthesis and signaling forest stress ahead.
Nevertheless, Hall and co identify five planets that consistently sit within the photosynthetic habitable zone. These are Kepler-452 b, Kepler-1638 b, Kepler-1544 b and Kepler-62 e and Kepler-62 f.