A machine-learning breakthrough could lift the veil on Earth’s early history—and supercharge the search for alien life ...

Giacomo Ciamician, a visionary in chemistry, warned us back in 1912. He cautioned that the use of coal and fossil fuels had ...

Could the chemical fingerprints of life really persist for billions of years, hidden in rocks reshaped by eons of heat and ...

Each year, Hiram College continues to show itself as a leader in interdisciplinary student work and research. This year ...

A door to unlimited power has been opened by artificial photosynthesis, a process that could have us turn away from ...

A team of scientists out of Cambridge have developed a new form of artificial photosynthesis, which could be a solution to ...

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 ...

Researchers have 'hacked' the earliest stages of photosynthesis, the natural machine that powers the vast majority of life on Earth, and discovered new ways to extract energy from the process, a ...

Cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, on the surface of a lake. Bacteria were the first organisms to photosynthesize, creating the oxygen essential for the evolution of life on Earth. Philipp Schulze / ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Humans can do lots of things that plants can’t do. We can walk around, we can talk, we can hear and see and touch. But plants have one major advantage over humans: They can make ...

The earliest oxygen-producing microbes may not have been cyanobacteria. Ancient microbes may have been producing oxygen through photosynthesis a billion years earlier than we thought, which means ...