So why do so many life-forms breathe oxygen? There are probably thousands of kinds of metabolisms, or chemical processes that ...

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) pollution drives climate change, warming the planet and threatening human survival. Plants naturally ...

That process, called carbon fixation, resulted in the assembly of two three-carbon molecules called 3-phosphoglycerate (3-PGA ...

While natural photosynthesis relies on hydrogen to convert CO 2 into O 2 and glucose, the new process introduces lithium as ...

The end products of this chemical reaction are the sugar glucose that plants use as food, and the byproduct, or unintended extra product, oxygen. There are two stages to the photosynthesis process ...

About half a billion years ago, early animals in the oceans and seas struggled to survive in a world that experienced ...

Children are always asking "Why?" As they experience things for the first time, it's natural to want to find out more. But as ...

The trees exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen with the atmosphere through little “mouths” in their leaves and tiny “windows” ...

To mitigate global climate change, emissions of the primary culprit, carbon dioxide, must be drastically reduced. A newly ...

After spending nearly 7,000 years buried deep in the mud of the Baltic Sea without light or oxygen, tiny algae have come back ...

With artificial photosynthesis, humankind could utilize solar energy to bind carbon dioxide and produce hydrogen. Chemists have taken this one step further: They have synthesized a stack of dyes that ...