The concentration of CO₂ in the atmosphere is rising rapidly, with numerous negative consequences for the climate. However, ...

Enzymes are molecular machines that carry out the chemical reactions that sustain all life, an ability that has captured the attention of scientists ...

Next the researchers are working on soybeans and cowpeas; the latter is “a hugely important food-security crop in African ...

Researchers around the world are working on new technologies to capture carbon from the atmosphere, but many approaches fall short on one key metric: their ability to scale. Nature, however, has ...

Hornworts, a group of small and often overlooked plants, may hold the key to revolutionizing agriculture and combating ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

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

The technology's scalable design makes it promising for widespread adoption. Scientists use plant-inspired method to capture ...

By breaking it down physically it creates a larger surface area to volume ratio for enzymes to act on. Enzymatic hydrolysis Enzymes then break down complex carbohydrates into simple carbohydrates such ...

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, United States Biomolecular Science and Engineering Program, University of California ...

Rubisco is the enzyme responsible for carbon fixation in plants, algae and many bacteria. A screen of a comprehensive library of rubisco variants (each with a different single-amino-acid mutation ...