Microbial organisms dominate life on Earth, but tracing their early history and evolution is difficult because they rarely ...

Bacteria used oxygen far earlier than expected, reshaping views on early life, evolution, and photosynthesis origins.

The discovery of dark oxygen clearly has potential implications for the deep-sea mining industry. Deep-sea mining would ...

Environmental stress in evolution can be reframed as a powerful engine of innovation, not simply a barrier to survival.

Plants naturally turn CO₂ into oxygen (O₂) during photosynthesis, but their efficiency is surprisingly low. Now, a new approach inspired by this natural process can efficiently transform CO₂ directly ...

Climate change is revealing oxygen levels in lakes are decreasing faster than experts expected due to warmer temperatures.

It is widely believed that Earth's atmosphere has been rich in oxygen for about 2.5 billion years due to a relatively rapid increase in microorganisms capable of performing photosynthesis.

While natural photosynthesis relies on hydrogen to convert CO 2 into O 2 and glucose, the new process introduces lithium as ...

Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, essential ...