Plants harness quantum physics to capture solar energy with near-perfect efficiency. Scientists are now exploring how to ...

Quantum mechanics plays a role in the process of photosynthesis. Engineers have long sought efficient ways to convert solar energy into storable chemical energy. Nature perfected this process billions ...

Credit: NASA / JPL / Arizona State University "The bacteria Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis, P. halo, it survives in really cold temperatures, for example," Riekeles told Mashable, "and it’s also ...

A new study is shining fresh light on how green plants and other photosynthetic organisms transport solar energy so efficiently. The latest research also highlights the importance of quantum mechanics ...

Jürgen Hauer explains: “When light is absorbed in a leaf, for example ... in green plants and other photosynthetic organisms, such as photosynthetic bacteria. However, the exact mechanisms ...

But what about a virus that doesn’t make people sick — just the bacteria that infects people, effectively destroying it? That’s what bacteriophages — or, simply, phages — are ...

The bacteria were given liquid growth media plus ... These organisms are photosynthetic, so they would use sunlight and the carbon dioxide already present in the Martian atmosphere.

Article subjects are automatically applied from the ACS Subject Taxonomy and describe the scientific concepts and themes of the article. For cytotoxicity screening against human keratinocytes (HaCat) ...

In the quest to take the “forever” out of “forever chemicals,” bacteria might be our ally. Most remediation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) involves adsorbing and trapping them, but ...

Examples of endosymbiosis are everywhere. Mitochondria, the energy factories in your cells, were once free-living bacteria. Photosynthetic plants owe their sun-spun sugars to the chloroplast ...

It is a common gut bacteria that never normally sees the light of day, but now Chinese scientists have engineered E coli so that it can harness sunlight like a plant. Incorporating a custom ...