Photosynthesis is still a mystery—but science is revealing unknown steps. Most plants split water molecules to generate energy, and now we have a clearer picture of exactly how they do it.

Excitations: First steps of photosynthesis Date: March 20, 2018 Source: University of Michigan Summary: Photosynthesis has driven life on this planet for more than 3 billion years -- first in ...

Artificial photosynthesis steps into the light Lab turns transition metals into practical catalyst for solar, other applications Date: March 24, 2017 ...

C3 vs. C4 Photosynthesis Now and then, RuBP will affix itself to oxygen instead of carbon dioxide in a process known as photorespiration. This wasteful pathway results in the consumption—not ...

Photosynthesis has driven life on this planet for more than 3 billion years—first in bacteria, then in plants—but we don't know exactly how it works. Now, a University of Michigan biophysicist and her ...

Artificial photosynthesis steps into the light Rice University lab turns transition metals into practical catalyst for solar, other applications ...

In the new study, published March 22 in the journal Nature, researchers used a new technique, known as ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy, to study how photosynthesis works at a timescale ...

For photosynthesis, one photon is all it takes. Only a single particle of light is required to spark the first steps of the biological process that converts light into chemical energy, scientists ...

Is Hacking Photosynthesis the Key to Increasing Crop Yields? It’s an agricultural moonshot, but scientists hope to make plants like corn, wheat and barley as heat and drought resistant as cactus ...

Posted: Mar 23, 2017: Artificial photosynthesis steps into the light (Nanowerk News) Rice University scientists have created an efficient, simple-to-manufacture oxygen-evolution catalyst that pairs ...