Using a groundbreaking new technique, researchers have unveiled the first detailed image of a photon — a single particle of ...

Eye protection must be worn. Starch is produced from glucose made during photosynthesis. Areas of the leaf exposed to the light should turn blue–black when iodine is added proving starch is present.

As the planet warms and global population grows, a looming food crisis is spurring biochemists to reengineer one of the most ...

All about the way plants turn sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into food.

photosynthesis has recently become useful in distinctly modern ways. Some plant scientists want to optimize its mechanisms to engineer more productive crops, for example, and beyond that it sheds ...

Filamentous cyanobacteria aggregate in areas with favorable light conditions and use the light energy for photosynthesis ... "This collective effect can thus also be observed in similar systems ...