Purple Earth Hypothesis suggests Earth was once a purple planet. Early microbes used retinal, not chlorophyll, for ...

Explore the fascinating Purple Earth Hypothesis, which suggests that Earth may have once been painted purple by early ...

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

A homemade, chlorophyll-rich fertilizer known as "green gold" is gaining attention among gardening enthusiasts.

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 ...

Scientists are solving the mysteries behind Iron-Deficiency Chlorosis. The condition, which causes yellowing of the soybean plant, was providing an important clue all along. In contrast to ...

Researchers try to decode the quantum mechanics of chlorophyll, Nature’s near-perfect light harvester, to harness solar energy flawlessly.

Jürgen Hauer explains: “When light is absorbed in a leaf, for example, the electronic excitation energy is distributed over several states of each excited chlorophyll molecule; this is called a ...

Jürgen Hauer explains, "When light is absorbed in a leaf, for example, the electronic excitation energy is distributed over several states of each excited chlorophyll molecule; this is called a ...

An artificial intelligence model has created a new protein that researchers say would have taken 500 million years to evolve in nature — if nature were capable of producing such a thing.