In Earth’s youth, photosynthetic life forms thrived for a billion years without producing so much as a whiff of oxygen. Why did some cells then start pumping out the gas that paved the way for animal life, and why did it take so long for this form of the reaction to evolve? Image: …-Wink-…
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Billions of years ago, a tiny cyanobacterium cracked open a water molecule – and let loose a poison that wrought death and destruction on an epic scale. Now, for the first time, geologists have found evidence of the crucial evolutionary stage just before photosynthesising cyanobacteria split water and began generating oxygen – the moment that made the modern world. Image: Specious Reasons
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Sticking an electrode into a photosynthesising cell makes it possible to draw off power from...
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Artificial photosynthesis has yet to be cracked, but engineers say that synthetic leaves could be...
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A team of US chemical engineers has extracted photosynthetic molecules from plants and attached...
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Carbon nanotubes have the right properties to allow a key step in photosynthesis that has eluded...
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