Sunlight is the energy source for photosynthesis. But a new discovery finds that cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, can grow in near-infrared light. Most life on Earth - plants, algae, and even some ...

Beginning two billion years of Earth’s history, the amount of oxygen was not sufficient, but the atmosphere was rich in ...

A research team led by Profs. Li Jing and Liu Qinhuo from the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (AIRCAS) has developed the world's first global, ...

Chlorophyll plays a pivotal role in photosynthesis, which is why plants have evolved to have high chlorophyll levels in their leaves. However, making this pigment is expensive because plants invest a ...

Trees need sunlight for the same reason you need food. The energy from the Sun’s rays is a crucial ingredient in how plants make their own food that helps them power all their cells. Since trees don’t ...

Earth is, by all measures, a giant solar panel. The sun provides us warmth and light of course, but its light also fires the engine that manufactures the basis of life on Earth for everything: food ...

Water-soluble protein helps to understand the photosynthetic apparatus. Whenever you see green color out in nature, you are likely to look at chlorophyll. This is the pigment used by all plants to do ...

From space, Earth looks like an absolute paradise with deep ocean blues and verdant green vegetation covering every continent including Antarctica. But are we biased in thinking that any sort of ...

In one of the most baffling discoveries of the last decade, scientists have found a clue in a cave to how life might survive ...

April 4 (UPI) --Scientists have discovered the world's first organism that can produce chlorophyll but does not perform photosynthesis. The unprecedented animal is called a corallicolid because it is ...