Italy's Phlegraean Fields is a hotspot of volcanic activity—an ever-shifting landscape pocketed with acidic hot springs. This ...

GrandPre explained how specific biomolecular condensates called pyrenoids allow some organisms — like algae — to conduct photosynthesis, a process that uses carbon dioxide to convert solar light ...

Harmful algal blooms, sometimes called HABs, occur when algae grow out of control. Algae are photosynthetic organisms that ...

Jovine, the cofounder and chief scientist of Brilliant Planet, is trying to engineer high-growth microalgae strains to ...

This allows the plant to capture and store carbon dioxide until the Sun rises again, offering the light necessary to complete photosynthesis. Algae are widely thought to conduct half of the world ...

Cyanobacteria began contributing oxygen to Earth’s mostly noxious atmosphere more than 2 billion years ago. The photosystem ...

Purple Earth Hypothesis suggests Earth was once a purple planet. Early microbes used retinal, not chlorophyll, for ...

When Palacio and her team examined coral reefs after the 2015–2016 heat wave, they found that particular corals called ...

These algae can turn sunlight into sugar through photosynthesis, providing nutrients for the clams. "It's like the algae are seeds, and a tree grows out of the clam's stomach," Li said.

CONCORDIA, Argentina - First a river ran blood red. Now Argentina’s beloved giant rodent, the capybara, has been coated in ...

The repair of photosystem II in chloroplasts — the sites of photosynthesis in plants and algae — is already fairly efficient, McKenzie said. “But you could make it more efficient by speeding ...