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 ...

An ancient lineage of cyanobacteria is helping biologists uncover an early evolutionary stage of the mind-boggling process ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown regulatory mechanism in plant photosynthesis in the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. It helps plants adapt to changes in light ...

Photosynthesis is one of the most important processes on Earth. It is the method by which green plants, algae, and some ...

Photosynthesis slows down or stops if the conditions aren’t sufficient enough. Play this game to see how a seed or a plant is affected by changing how much water, sunlight and carbon dioxide it gets.