The energy that plants capture from sunlight through photosynthesis provides the source of nearly all of humanity's food. Yet the process of photosynthesis has inefficiencies that limit crop ...

Corals obtain energy in two ways: firstly, through photosynthesis by their symbiotic algae, and secondly by taking up small ...

“My long-standing aim is to rethink what it truly means to be a plant,” Kenji Suetsugu, a botanist at Kobe University in ...

University of Delaware’s Molly Sutherland, assistant professor of biological sciences, has received a $1.38 million National ...

When you look across a field of miscanthus, it's "hypnotically beautiful," says Emily Heaton, whose family farm has for two ...

Bacteria may play a key role in Martian habitat construction, turning soil into cement-like materials while supporting life ...

In the inky blackness nearly 10,000 meters below the Pacific Ocean, scientists have discovered strange animals that may hold vital clues about life beyond Earth. Surviving entirely without sunlight, ...

Researchers at IIT Guwahati have discovered that while drought shrinks the vertical water channels in plants, it triggers a ...

The study reveals how Balanophora plants function despite abandoning photosynthesis and, in some species, sexual reproduction ...

Balanophora lost photosynthesis long ago but kept tiny plastids that run key chemistry and shows how forest parasites adapt ...

For many of us, the holiday season means Christmas trees, homemade foods you only get once a year, spending time with family ...