Cyanobacteria began contributing oxygen to Earth's mostly noxious atmosphere more than 2 billion years ago. The photosystem ...

Scientists are studying C. merolae, an alga thriving in Italy’s volcanic Phlegraean Fields, to understand its unique ...

Scientists have found that an increase in water salinity in the cells of the marine diatom Nitzschia weakens the connections ...

Researchers at Cornell University are developing HelioSkin, a lightweight, flexible solar fabric that can be woven around ...

Department of Orthopedic Trauma and Microsurgery of Zhongnan Hospital & Key Laboratory of Biomedical Polymers of Ministry of Education & Department of Chemistry, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, PR ...

For most of human history, Earth has been known as the “Pale Blue Dot,” a term popularized by astronomer Carl Sagan when ...

When Palacio and her team examined coral reefs after the 2015–2016 heat wave, they found that particular corals called ...

Earth's oceans may have been green for billions of years until the first photosynthetic organisms flooded our atmosphere with ...

Ironically, receiving too much light can damage photosystem II and erode the photosynthetic efficiency of plants. Purdue University biochemists Steven McKenzie and Sujith Puthiyaveetil have gleaned ...

For now, life thrives on our oxygen-rich planet. But Earth’s atmosphere won’t always be so welcoming. In fact, scientists ...

1 Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China 2 Statistics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Shandong University of Technology, ...