The water body located in Littleton and Lyman has suffered from frequent bouts of the photosynthetic bacteria, which feed on ...

Plants have been using solar energy for millions of years, but advances in machine learning and protein engineering could ...

Scientists found that volcanic eruptions triggered short-lived oxygen spikes before Earth's air became breathable.

The study revealed that microplastics are disrupting photosynthesis across a broad spectrum of plant species, including ...

Understand the urgent need for plastic mitigation strategies to protect biodiversity and food supplies as microplastics ...

Michigan State University researchers found that under high light, high carbondioxide conditions, plants photosynthesize more, which can lead to larger plants, and potentially larger crop yields.

It is widely believed that Earth's atmosphere has been rich in oxygen for about 2.5 billion years due to a relatively rapid increase in microorganisms capable of performing photosynthesis. Researchers ...

Researchers from the University of Tokyo provide a mechanism to explain precursor oxygenation events “whiffs,” which may have ...

The ability of bacteria to control the biophysical properties of their membrane phospholipids allows them to thrive in a wide range of physical environments. Fatty acid biosynthesis is an energy ...

Diluted with water to about 5 percent acidity, distilled white vinegar is hailed as a natural, nontoxic cleaning marvel, killing some household bacteria, dissolving hard-water deposits ...

Swimming in still water lakes can expose individuals to Legionella bacteria, which may cause legionnaires’ disease, a severe pneumonia with symptoms like fever, fatigue, and respiratory issues.