Scientists at MIT have turbocharged one of nature’s most sluggish but essential enzymes—rubisco—by applying a cutting-edge ...

Scientists have developed a material with photosynthetic bacteria that convert carbon dioxide into a mineral skeleton. The ...

A certain species of sea slug steals chloroplasts from algae and houses its contraband in special organelles that it can raid ...

At ETH Zurich, scientists from many different fields are working on something that seems straight out of science fiction.

A new study led by Harvard biologists describes how some sea slugs consume algae and incorporate their photosynthetic ...

Sustainable materials—powered by sunlight and living microbes—that remove pollutants from water, release oxygen into a wound ...

Scientists are designing a new living material that captures carbon dioxide directly from the air. It uses photosynthetic ...

Lichen from the Mojave Desert has stunned scientists by surviving months of lethal UVC radiation, suggesting life could exist ...

So while photosynthetic cattle are unlikely to be appearing on any farms in the near future, planimal cells could still have a major role to play in both food production and medicine.

The field is littered with the corpses of startups that have tried—and failed—to make a buck out of microalgae. What makes ...