We learned in school that plants use carbon dioxide and sunlight to create energy and produce oxygen. But no one explained to us exactly how that happened. It seems a protein called rubisco is ...

Tiny diatoms in the ocean are masters at capturing carbon dioxide from the environment ... membranes and then used to help the enzyme Rubisco fix CO 2. When the researchers removed the PyShell ...

It is a side reaction that occurs when the enzyme rubisco, responsible for capturing carbon dioxide, binds oxygen instead.

Photosynthesis forms the foundation of life on Earth, yet climate change increasingly threatens this essential process.

Over the course of millions of years, the rough versions of photosynthesis of early plants turned into a number of distinct photosynthesis pathways, all based around the RuBisCO (ribulose-1,5 ...

Juice bars. Wine bars. Coffee bars. And now ... oxygen bars? Yep, popping up all over the U.S. (as well as in Canada and Japan, where the craze is thought to have begun because of the serious air ...

A typical large tree can suck as much as 40 kilograms of carbon dioxide out of the air over the course of a year. Now scientists at UC Berkeley say they can do the same job with less than half a ...

creating glucose and oxygen from CO2 and water in the presence of light from the Sun. This had a transformative impact on the atmosphere: as life developed, CO2 was consumed so that by around 20 ...

NASA sent the Perseverance rover to Mars with some bonus technology: a device that can turn carbon dioxide into oxygen, much as trees do on Earth. The device, called the Mars Oxygen In-Situ ...

He first pumped in a mix of gases which included oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide to simulate air. He also sampled real air, pumped in from just outside the lab at Latimer Hall, from a tube on ...

close respirationA chemical reaction that occurs in the mitochondria of cells in which glucose and oxygen react to produce carbon dioxide and water, releasing energy. Photosynthesis is one of the ...