A study by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and California Institute of Technology, or Caltech, debunks a common misconception about the origin of oxygen-producing photosynthesis. Berkeley Lab ...

Johns Hopkins University undergraduate students who missed in-person lab work during the COVID-19 pandemic have created an augmented reality phone app to bring the laboratory to their smartphones. The ...

Wellsville High School biology teacher and Alfred University alumnus Ross Munson (right) and senior Lucius Griggs, discuss how solvent will interact with chromatography paper to move chlorophyll.

Plants and animals have many similarities when it comes to what they need to survive. Both need water and air. We often think of animals using oxygen and glucose for cellular respiration and producing ...

Take a deep breath. Now take nine more. According to new research, the amount of oxygen in one of those 10 breaths was made possible thanks to a newly identified cellular mechanism that promotes ...

Researchers have 'hacked' the earliest stages of photosynthesis, the natural machine that powers the vast majority of life on Earth, and discovered new ways to extract energy from the process, a ...

The laboratory of developmental biologist Michael Levin at Tufts University, with its dozen or so postgrads, is a hub of ideas, experiments, and discoveries. Most exciting is the focus on cognition as ...