photosynthesis

Researchers have ‘hacked’ the earliest stages of photosynthesis, the natural machine that powers the vast majority of life on Earth, and discovered...

Researchers have developed floating ‘artificial leaves’ that generate clean fuels from sunlight and water, and could eventually operate on a large...

The quest to find new ways to harness solar power has taken a step forward after researchers successfully split water into hydrogen and oxygen by...

Green wall technology and semi-transparent solar panels have been combined to generate electrical current from a renewable source of energy both day...

To maximise the efficiency of solar cells of the future, physicists are taking a leaf out of nature’s book.

Plants use sugars to tell the time of day, according to research published in Nature today.

Quantum scale photosynthesis in biological systems which inhabit extreme environments could hold key to new designs for solar energy and nanoscale...

Microscopic organisms living in the ocean play a key role in sustaining life. New research has shown how oceanic turbulence affects the ability of...