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Plants harness quantum physics to capture solar energy with near-perfect efficiency. Scientists are now exploring how to ...

Photosynthesis -- mainly carried out by plants -- is based on a remarkably efficient energy conversion process. To generate chemical energy, sunlight must first be captured and transported further.

Quantum mechanics plays a role in the process of photosynthesis. Engineers have long sought efficient ways to convert solar ...

This week at AAAS, PNNL scientists and colleagues discuss phenomics, exposomics, and the factors that influence DNA ...

Developing greener alternatives for industrial chemicals that have a smaller impact on the environment isn't always ...

(Photo by Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife, via Flickr, Creative Commons) Tidal Vision, a green chemistry company ... shells into a valuable industrial chemical called chitosan, as well ...

Psoriasis is a chronic skin disease that manifests itself mainly with skin symptoms (dryness, itching, scaly skin, abnormal ...

Researchers try to decode the quantum mechanics of chlorophyll, Nature’s near-perfect light harvester, to harness solar ...