Scientists have uncovered shocking evidence that Earth's first life thrived in volcanic hellscapes 2.75 billion years ...

A new source of nitrogen has been discovered. Researchers from RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau in southwestern Germany ...

Biological photovoltaics, biophotovoltaics, or BPV, is a renewable energy technology that uses oxygenic photoautotrophic organisms (or parts) to generate electricity from solar power. These systems ...

Figure 1: A schematic diagram of the electron-proton transport chain of oxygenic photosynthesis. Both PSI and PSII are multisubunit pigment protein complexes embedded in the thylakoid membrane of ...

Life on Earth has always depended on nitrogen. As a building block of proteins and DNA, nitrogen is essential to all living ...

Michelle Gehringer studies fossilized life on early Earth to learn more about the evolution of (oxygenic) photosynthesis—the process that makes the oxygen we breath. Credit: Rheinland ...

The team also suggests that major evolutionary innovations, such as oxygenic photosynthesis (which produces oxygen) or the emergence of multicellular organisms, might not be unique events. This opens ...

Study challenges the idea that intelligent life is rare in the universe Evolution may respond to planetary changes, making life more probable New research proposes intelligent life could emerge faster ...

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The experimental site was in Chang Ping district, a suburb of Beijing, China (40°12′N, 116°80′E). Beijing has a typical temperate and monsoonal climate with four clearly distinct seasons. The annual ...

Figure 1. Geographic distribution of sampling sites in South China. XS: Xiangshan, Fuzhou, Jiangxi province (7 rock weathering samples). XC: Xiaoca, Shaoguan, Guangdong province (11UMT samples from ...