Plants eat sunlight and air to make life. But the key enzyme behind it all, called rubisco, isn’t actually all that great at its job. Let’s talk about how photo ...

A brush-and-sample mission had to be skipped as NASA's Curiosity Mars rover found itself on unstable ground, but this opened ...

Today is Earth Day. It's a time to inspire action to save the planet and a day to learn about nature. That's exactly the ...

In UK, Project SeaCURE is pioneering technology to extract CO₂ directly from seawater, enhancing the ocean's natural carbon ...

Earth Day is always April 22 in the United States and celebrates the natural world around us and how to keep it healthy.

There are certain things that have become mainstays on Earth. One of these things is the ocean being blue, there are ...

In relation to global warming and the role of carbon dioxide, the atmospheric residence-time of carbon dioxide from industrial emissions, and the carbon dioxide fixation capacity by photosynthesis ...

Nano Science Technology Institute, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea Yonsei-KIST Convergence Research Institute, Seoul 03722, Republic ...

Scientists have helped to construct a detailed timeline for bacterial evolution, suggesting some bacteria used oxygen long before evolving the ability to produce it through photosynthesis.

Shanghai Frontiers Science Center of Nanocatalytic Medicine, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Shanghai 200331, P. R. China State Key Laboratory of High ...

A group of diatom species belonging to the Nitzschia genus, gave up on photosynthesis and now get their carbon straight from their environment, thanks to a bacterial gene picked up by an ancestor.