Find out how solar cells power a good portion of homes today—and how they might power almost everything in the future.

A Research Topic in honor of Professor Reto Jörg Strasser’s 80th birthday, which was on December 28, 2023, invites original research and review papers for ...

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

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 ...

Scientists create artificial leaves from supramolecular hydrogels that efficiently convert light into chemical energy for green, recyclable photocatalysis.

When two organisms live together so closely that they merge into a functional unit, this is known as symbiosis. In the "1+1=1 ...

During photosynthesis, the plant soaks up light from the sun using a green-colored substance called chlorophyll, which is stored in tiny structures in the plant's leaves. These structures, called ...

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 ...