Scientists have uncovered shocking evidence that Earth's first life thrived in volcanic hellscapes 2.75 billion years ...

A new source of nitrogen has been discovered. Researchers from RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau in southwestern Germany ...

Department of Chemistry, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, the James Franck Institute, and the Pritzker School for Molecular Engineering, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United ...

Figure 1: A schematic diagram of the electron-proton transport chain of oxygenic photosynthesis. Both PSI and PSII are multisubunit pigment protein complexes embedded in the thylakoid membrane of ...

Biological photovoltaics, biophotovoltaics, or BPV, is a renewable energy technology that uses oxygenic photoautotrophic organisms (or parts) to generate electricity from solar power. These systems ...

The team also suggests that major evolutionary innovations, such as oxygenic photosynthesis (which produces oxygen) or the emergence of multicellular organisms, might not be unique events. This opens ...

Study challenges the idea that intelligent life is rare in the universe Evolution may respond to planetary changes, making life more probable New research proposes intelligent life could emerge faster ...

A crewed mission to and from Mars may include an exciting array of enabling biotechnologies that leverage inherent mass, power, and volume advantages over traditional abiotic approaches. In this ...

The experimental site was in Chang Ping district, a suburb of Beijing, China (40°12′N, 116°80′E). Beijing has a typical temperate and monsoonal climate with four clearly distinct seasons. The annual ...