Scientists reveal ‘beating heart’ of photosynthesis that is responsible for significantly influencing plant growth. Study shows how an electrical reaction in protein complex cytochrom... Read more
Scientists have found how to relieve a bottleneck in the process by which plants transform sunlight into food, which may lead to an increase in crop production. They discovered that producin... Read more
Concordia researchers create a technology to harness the electrical energy from plants To limit climate change, experts say that we need to reach carbon neutrality by the end of this century... Read more
Crops with improved yields could more easily become a reality, thanks to a development by scientists. Researchers studying a biological process that enables tiny green algae to grow efficien... Read more
A team of researchers from the Optical Bio Microsystem lab at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, have invented and developed micro-photosynthetic cell technology that can harness elec... Read more
Could be significant ramifications for energy harvesting and solar energy conversion . . . Carbon nanotubes and inorganic nanoparticles enhance photosynthetic activity and stability. The Sci... Read more
Using high-performance computing and genetic engineering to boost the photosynthetic efficiency of plants offers the best hope of increasing crop yields enough to feed a planet expected to h... Read more
An ANU team has successfully replicated one of the crucial steps in photosynthesis, opening the way for biological systems powered by sunlight which could manufacture hydrogen as a fuel. “Wa... Read more
This procedure yields the highest photocurrents observed to date for semi-artificial bio-photoelectrodes while the electron transfer rate exceeds by one order of magnitude the one observed i... Read more
An international team, led by Arizona State University scientists, has published today in Nature a groundbreaking study that shows the first snapshots of photosynthesis in action as it split... Read more
The Symbiotic Machine is currently living at an aquarium in the Glass House in Amstelpark in Amsterdam, Transdisciplinary artist and researcher Ivan Henriques collaborated with scientists fr... Read more
Nanotechnology could turn shrubbery into supercharged energy producers or sensors for explosives. Plants have many valuable functions: They provide food and fuel, release the oxygen that we... Read more
Humans have for ages taken cues from nature to build their own devices, but duplicating the steps in the complicated electronic dance of photosynthesis remains one of the biggest challenges... Read more
It should help biological scientists to develop crops with significantly improved yields to feed the world How some plant species evolved super-efficient photosynthesis had been a mystery. N... Read more
Boston College chemists produce power boost critical to novel energy harvesting applications Chemists at Boston College have achieved a series of breakthroughs in their efforts to develop an... Read more
