How do photosynthetic organisms harvest light so efficiently? To help answer this question, researchers have developed an ultrafast transient absorption microscope with sensitivity approaching the ...

Japanese researchers have created an ultrafast transient absorption microscope with near single-molecule sensitivity, enabling unprecedented study of photosynthesis at femtosecond timescales. The ...

In efforts to better understand how plant photosynthesis is regulated, scientists are studying how Rubisco activity responds ...

Plants can reshape a key protein to survive heat and cold, helping photosynthesis continue as temperatures swing.

Following the worst mass extinction event on Earth, the land was not entirely barren of life. In the wake of this cataclysm, ...

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 energy directly from ...

Photosynthesis is the process by which plants and a few types of single-celled organisms use energy from the sun to transform carbon dioxide and water into a storable form of energy: glucose. One of ...

Researchers have caught their best glimpse yet into the origins of photosynthesis, one of nature’s most momentous innovations. By taking near-atomic, high-resolution X-ray images of proteins from ...

Researchers find that the earliest bacteria had the tools to perform a crucial step in photosynthesis, changing how we think life evolved on Earth. Researchers find that the earliest bacteria had the ...

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 ...