Photosynthesis has fueled life on Earth for billions of years. Learn how it shapes ecosystems, sustains life, and even aids ...

There is a pressing need for environmentally friendly meat production technologies to tackle the increasing global food ...

What if a microbe could help curb the climate crisis? Meet UTEX-3222, aka 'Chonkus,' a cyanobacterium discovered living in the volcanic CO2 seeps off the coast of Vulcano, Sicily. Chonkus is like ...

Astrobiologists planted garden cress seeds and cultured dishes of photosynthetic bacteria under lights designed to simulate the light of a star called a K-dwarf.

This form of blue-green algae has evolved to survive coastal volcanic environments, where carbon dioxide is anything but ...

Chonkus, a mutant strain of cyanobacteria seen here in a microscopy image, contains large white spots that appear to be carbon-dense granules. Those granules may explain why the cyanobacterium grows ...

A novel strain of cyanobacteria isolated from volcanic ocean vents that grows rapidly in the presence of carbon dioxide and ...

'We believe that dusty Martian ice exposures in the mid-latitudes represent the most easily accessible places to search for Martian life today.' The conditions needed for photosynthesis to occur ...

To resolve this, the researchers had developed L-lactate assimilating cyanobacteria (photosynthetic microorganisms) with lactate to pyruvate converting genes, which were capable of taking in ...

“This naturally occurring strain of cyanobacteria has several traits ... to receive sunlight - and realized that there might be photosynthetic microbes living in those environments that had ...

Photosynthesis is the process by which living things like plants, algae and cyanobacteria create chemical energy. It requires water and light to proceed and creates the majority of the oxygen in ...