Researchers have successfully grown green algae in a specialized bioplastic “shelter” designed to mimic Mars. The Harvard ...

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

Nature holds the original patent for storing light energy in molecules more successfully than in battery technologies.

(via It's Okay to Be Smart) 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 photosynthesis ...

Photosynthesis, the way plants and some tiny organisms turn sunlight into energy, works incredibly well even though ...

We know photosynthesis exists on Earth, and scientists have found UV-driven abiogenesis—the concept that UV radiation can help generate life from non-living matter—to be a probable theory for ...