If you remember elementary school science, photosynthesis is the process used to create energy by plants. Scientists Daniel Nocera and Pamela Silver from Harvard have created what they call a bionic ...

Speaking at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in California, MIT professor Daniel Nocera claims to have created an artificial leaf, made from stable and inexpensive materials, ...

Boosting energy conversion at the canopy level is crucial for augmenting biomass and crop productivity, with factors like leaf photosynthesis efficiency, canopy architecture, and leaf chlorophyll ...

Advances in Horticultural Science, Vol. 6, No. 1 (1992), pp. 23-27 (5 pages) CO₂ assimilation rate (A) of single-shoot potted « Sangiovese » grapevines was measured at intervals during the season on ...

In Science, it is imperative to connect the dots when trying to solve the world’s greatest challenges. One of these challenges, and where the pieces need to be marred together, is stipulated to be in ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Winter will be here soon enough, but enjoy those gorgeous fall leaf colors along the Front Range before any snowflakes arrive. Reach back and recall your ...

Unlike us, plants don't need pantries full of food to stay alive; the Sun is their pantry. But, like us, they require fairly regular sustenance, which they create via photosynthesis. This seemingly ...

Here’s an alternative source of energy many have never heard of—bionic leaves. Scientists from Harvard University just made photosynthesis more efficient with what its creators are calling the “bionic ...