photosynthesis

Bionic leaf: using bacteria to convert solar energy into fuel

Posted in Science on 9th Feb, 2015
by Alex Muller

Harvesting sunlight is a trick plants mastered more than a billion years ago, using solar energy to feed themselves from the air and water through photosynthesis.

New evidence that plants get their energy using quantum entanglement

Posted in Science on 12th Jan, 2014
by Alex Muller

A feature of plants that cannot be explained by classical physics alone, but which quantum mechanics answers quite nicely.