Some cyanobacteria have pigments that specialise in harvesting green light to power their photosynthesis, which may be an evolutionary adaptation to a time when the oceans were iron-rich and green-tin ...

Hundreds of different species of microbes live in your gut. In the future, one of these might serve a new function: ...

This study uncovers key morphological and ultrastructural similarities between cable bacteria genera. The periplasmic ...

A new photosynthesis system never before seen in nature that can improve the use of one-carbon substrates in Escherichia coli ...

We describe the general background and the recent advances in research on underwater photosynthesis of leaf segments, whole communities, and plant dominated aquatic ecosystems and present contemporary ...

In the quest to take the “forever” out of “forever chemicals,” bacteria might be our ally. Most remediation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) involves adsorbing and trapping them, but ...

It is a common gut bacteria that never normally sees the light of day, but now Chinese scientists have engineered E coli so that it can harness sunlight like a plant. Incorporating a custom ...

Plants use light to generate fuels through photosynthesis—converting energy from the sun into sugar molecules. With artificial photosynthesis, scientists mimic nature and convert light into high ...

A team has identified a strain of bacteria that can break down and transform at least three types of PFAS, and, perhaps even more crucially, some of the toxic byproducts of the bond-breaking process.

The mutants we discovered had CO 2 affinities outside the normal range for photosynthetic bacteria. Such affinities are more typical of plants or algae — organisms separated by billions of years ...

Tests on the "mysterious balls" which led to the closure of several Australian beaches last week have revealed they were made up partially of faecal bacteria. Nine beaches in Sydney were closed by ...

Oxygenic photosynthesis is the main energy input into the biosphere. It has sustained our civilization through agriculture and fossil fuels, and it has sustained a thriving biodiversity over billions ...