In a delicious turn of events, scientists succeeded in taking the optics of olive oil to create the first-ever microlaser ...

A liquid supplement is going viral, with wellness influencers claiming it can do everything from clear up skin and curb ...

Tomato plants can be fussy and are prone to a range of pests and diseases, as well as nutritional deficiencies, which can be ...

Tomato plants are susceptible to a range of pests, diseases and deficiencies that can cause them to stop growing, and one ...

So knowing this we might more accurately phrase the inquiry as, “what’s the most common electromagnetic energy in the cosmos?” And then learning it’s energy whose waves are spaced roughly 6,000 ...

It's crunch time for gardeners growing their own tomatoes, with plants typically fruiting from mid-summer onwards.

Retinal and purple halobacteria Retinal, a molecule still found in nature, is present in the plum-colored membrane of a photosynthetic microbe called halobacteria. This bacterium absorbs green ...

Photosynthesis occurs inside a plant cell’s chloroplast, a specialized structure where the magic happens. When light hits a plant’s leaves, it reaches the chloroplasts, inside which is chlorophyll, a ...

Scientists recreate plants’ energy-capturing ability in artificial photosynthesis The first step involves capturing sunlight using chlorophyll. Updated: Mar 14, 2025 05:44 AM EST ...

The hémin molecule has essentially the same nucleus, but different side chains. It contains two vinyl groups, which are hydrogenated to ethyl groups in chlorophyll.

It sounds futuristic, yet plants have harnessed it for billions of years to maximize their solar intake. “When light is absorbed in a leaf, for example, the electronic excitation energy is distributed ...

Some scientists propose that Earth was once covered in shades of purple instead of green. The idea suggests early life forms used a different molecule for photosynthesis than today’s chlorophyll.