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Byline: Staff Writers Berkeley CA (SPX) Jul 04, 2013, 2013 A paper by scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and colleagues examining the net energy of a [...]

Byline: Staff Writers Canberra, Australia (SPX) Oct 11, 2011, 2011 In a paper published in Nature, a team of US, Dutch and Australian scientists have estimated that the global rate [...]

Byline: Staff Writers East Lansing MI (SPX) May 16, 2011, 2011 In a head-to-head battle of harvesting the sun's energy, solar cells beat plants, according to a new paper in [...]

Byline: Staff Writers Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 10, 2015, 2015 Caltech scientists, inspired by a chemical process found in leaves, have developed an electrically conductive film that could help pave [...]

Byline: Staff Writers Oxford UK (SPX) Mar 09, 2015, 2015 For the first time, an international research team has provided direct evidence of the rate at which individual trees in [...]

Byline: Staff Writers Baton Rouge LA (SPX) Oct 28, 2014, 2014 A world without plants would be a world without oxygen, uninhabitable for us and for many creatures. We know [...]

Byline: Staff Writers University Park PA (SPX) Aug 27, 2014, 2014 Bacteria that grow in environments enriched in far-red light use a previously unknown process for harvesting energy. This discovery [...]

Byline: Staff Writers Bochum, Germany (SPX) Aug 26, 2014, 2014 A cooperation between chemists and biologists from the Ruhr-University Bochum resulted in a new method for the very efficient integration [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Gardner for PU News West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jul 24, 2014, 2014 Spinach gave Popeye super strength, but it also holds the promise of a different power for [...]

Byline: Lynn Yarris for LBNL Berkeley CA (SPX) Jul 17, 2014, 2014 A crucial piece of the puzzle behind nature's ability to split the water molecule during photosynthesis that could [...]

Byline: Staff Writers Tempe AZ (SPX) Jul 11, 2014, 2014 An international team, led by Arizona State University scientists, has published in Nature a groundbreaking study that shows the first [...]

Byline: Lynn Yarris for LBNL Berkeley CA (SPX) Jul 10, 2014, 2014 A crucial piece of the puzzle behind nature's ability to split the water molecule during photosynthesis that could [...]

Byline: Staff Writers Southampton, UK (SPX) Jun 03, 2014, 2014 Scientists from the University of Southampton, in collaboration with the Universities of Sheffield and Crete, have developed a new hybrid [...]

Byline: Kathryn Hansen for Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 01, 2014, 2014 Data from satellite sensors show that during the Northern Hemisphere's growing season, the Midwest region [...]

Byline: Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Mar 27, 2014, 2014 Plants convert energy from sunlight into chemical energy during a process called photosynthesis. This energy is passed on to humans [...]

Byline: Staff Writers Cambridge MA (SPX) Mar 19, 2014, 2014 Plants have many valuable functions: They provide food and fuel, release the oxygen that we breathe, and add beauty to [...]

Byline: Lynn Yarris for Berkeley News Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 07, 2014, 2014 There's promising news from the front on efforts to produce fuels through artificial photosynthesis. A new study [...]

Byline: Staff Writers Argonne IL (SPX) Jan 17, 2014, 2014 Humans have for ages taken cues from nature to build their own devices, but duplicating the steps in the complicated [...]

Byline: Simon Levey for ICL News London, UK (SPX) Oct 21, 2013, 2013 How some plant species evolved super-efficient photosynthesis had been a mystery. Now, scientists have identified what steps [...]

Byline: Katie Neith for Caltech News Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 28, 2013, 2013 For most terrestrial life on Earth, oxygen is necessary for survival. But the planet's atmosphere did [...]

Byline: Lynn Yarris for Berkeley News Berkeley CA (SPX) Jun 12, 2013, 2013 With the daily mean concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide having reached 400 parts-per-million for the first time [...]

Byline: Adam Hadhazy for Astrobiology Magazine Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 07, 2013, 2013 Photosynthesis-the harvesting of sunlight to produce energy-is the ultimate driver of virtually all life on the [...]

Byline: Lynn Yarris for Berkeley News Berkeley CA (SPX) May 17, 2013, 2013 In the wake of the sobering news that atmospheric carbon dioxide is now at its highest level [...]

Byline: Staff Writers Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 03, 2013, 2013 Chemists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory believe they can now explain one [...]

Byline: Staff Writers Stanford CA (SPX) Feb 19, 2013, 2013 Opening a new window on the way plants generate the oxygen we breathe, researchers used an X-ray laser at the [...]

Byline: Staff Writers Ithaca NY (SPX) Jan 30, 2013, 2013 With projections of 9.5 billion people by 2050, humanity faces the challenge of feeding modern diets to additional mouths while [...]

Byline: Staff Writers Troy NY (SPX) Jul 04, 2012, 2012 New research led by chemists in the Baruch '60 Center for Biochemical Solar Energy Research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is [...]

Byline: Staff Writers New Brunswick NJ (SPX) Feb 23, 2012, 2012 Atmospheric oxygen really took off on our planet about 2.4 billion years ago during the Great Oxygenation Event. At [...]

Byline: Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor University of Illinois Champaign, IL (SPX) Oct 12, 2011, 2011 An Illinois research team has succeeded in overcoming one major obstacle to a promising [...]

Byline: Staff Writers Tucson AZ (SPX) May 16, 2011, 2011 Which is more efficient at harvesting the sun's energy, plants or solar cells? This salient question and an answer are [...]

Byline: Staff Writers Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 16, 2011, 2011 Plants can overcome their evolutionary legacies to become much better at using biological photosynthesis to produce energy, the kind [...]

Byline: Staff Writers College Park MD (SPX) Jul 22, 2010, 2010 Recently, academic debate has been swirling around the existence of unusual quantum mechanical effects in the most ubiquitous of [...]

Byline: Staff Writers Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 25, 2010, 2010 About 85 percent of the history of life on Earth has been solely microbial, meaning that single-celled organisms ruled [...]

Byline: Staff Writers Julich, Germany (SPX) Mar 28, 2008 Julich scientists have made an important step on the long road to artificially mimicking photosynthesis. They were able to synthesise a [...]

Byline: Staff Writers Julich, Germany (SPX) Mar 27, 2008 Julich scientists have made an important step on the long road to artificially mimicking photosynthesis. They were able to synthesise a [...]