The researchers used two catalysts, both based in transition metals, iridium and molybdenum for the experiment.

So, as a bookend to the fall foliage season, in the spring, the green comes first. Young leaves are light green with their ...

Everything about a plant’s life is affected by its leaves. These powerhouses are the sugar factories of botany! Leaves have amazing mechanisms for sustaining the plant’s life, as well as their vital ...

Oneida city officials joined students from Seneca Street Elementary School this past week in Allen Park for a belated ...

Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, essential ...

An international team of scientists have unlocked a key piece of Earth's evolutionary puzzle by decoding the structure of a ...

In the new engineered potatoes, a gene inserted into the plant cell’s nucleus produced a protein that traveled into the chloroplast, the cell organelle used in photosynthesis. There it broke ...

A team of scientists with two Department of Energy Bioenergy Research Centers -; the Center for Bioenergy Innovation, or CBI, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and ...

Little green powerhouses: This fluorescence image shows chloroplasts (in magenta) successfully integrated into hamster cells, alongside other highlighted features, including nuclei (light blue ...

Now, researchers have shown they can get animal cells to do the same thing. Photosynthesis in plants and algae is performed by tiny organelles known as chloroplasts, which convert sunlight into oxygen ...

Importantly, these imported chloroplasts displayed activity for two further days, during which time their host cells grew at an accelerated rate. This indicates that photosynthesis was indeed ...

Scientists have been trying to make photosynthesis happen in animals since the 1970s. An image shows chloroplasts (magenta colored) successfully incorporated into animal cells for the first time.