Japanese researchers have devised a way to find out: Make the plant transparent. With a chemical bath, they reduce the plant’s visible chlorophyll, the pigment that makes it green. Days to weeks ...

A flexible artificial leaf mimics aquatic plants' light-tracking, increasing solar fuel production by up to 866% even at ...

This innovation could enable skyscrapers, with their expansive glass surfaces, to become power plants. For electric vehicles, transparent solar cells could be integrated into windshields or body ...