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

Here’s how it works. Photosynthesis is the process used by plants, algae and some bacteria to turn sunlight into energy. The process chemically converts carbon dioxide (CO2) and water into food ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The study, published today, not only advances scientists’ understanding of bacterial photosynthesis but ... role in global nutrient cycles and energy flow in ecosystems and form the base of ...

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 ...

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 ...

A key feature of this system is toroidal conjugation, a phenomenon in which energy and charge flow continuously around ... of mechanisms similar to photosynthesis and to the development of ...