A group of diatom species belonging to the Nitzschia genus gave up on photosynthesis and now get their carbon straight from ...
Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, essential ...
A group of diatom species belonging to the Nitzschia genus, gave up on photosynthesis and now get their carbon straight from their environment, thanks to a bacterial gene picked up by an ancestor, ...
A first-of-its-kind solar project in Merced County could become a model for other communities across the state and nation.
They synthesized materials that could be used in antidepressant and hay fever drugs. Scientists make major energy ...
Climate change is revealing oxygen levels in lakes are decreasing faster than experts expected due to warmer temperatures.
Most of Australia’s plants rely on a hidden underground network of fungi for water and minerals. They could be in trouble – ...
Photosynthesising microbes in soil may increase their activity as temperatures rise, offsetting some of the carbon emissions ...
Opinion: We must reclaim our government. We must become part of it where we can, and at the very least, let it mirror our ...
Before, the seasons seemed etched into the calendar, with well-defined periods of drought and rain. Today, the climate has ...
A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to ...
So why do so many life-forms breathe oxygen? There are probably thousands of kinds of metabolisms, or chemical processes that ...