158 Results From "Photosynthesis"

A young Asian man heading to a clothes shelf in a store before taking a closer look at a t-shirt.
Pollution

What your cheap clothes cost the planet

lanternfly
Insects

What’s going on with spotted lanternflies?

Polymetallic nodules on the Blake Plateau in the Atlantic Ocean, captured by the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer in 2019.
Ocean

Humans know very little about the deep sea. That may not stop us from mining it.

Mars surface NASA Odyssey
Space

What we should think about before terraforming alien worlds

Stressed clams turn ghostly white in warming waters
Ocean

Stressed clams turn ghostly white in warming waters

Corn stalk leaf measuring robot parked in front of field
Robots

The corn leaf angle measuring robot is more useful than you think

All the fish we cannot see
Fish

All the fish we cannot see

Roses blooming in a garden.
Biology

Chemists finally unlock the secret to a rose’s iconic aroma

This fossilized ‘ancient animal’ might be a bunch of old seaweed
Evolution

This fossilized ‘ancient animal’ might be a bunch of old seaweed

A moniker fairy lantern plant detonates, with its petals unfurling.
Land

Scientists just rediscovered a rare, fungi-eating ‘fairy lantern’

What happens when a tree dies?
Biology

What happens when a tree dies?

Hammerhead shark
Sharks

A scientific mission to save the sharks

Yellow-green cyanobacteria bloom in Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon. Events like these can cause mass fish dieoffs.
Ocean

A fish-kill mystery in a remote Alaska village takes a toxic turn

Purple sea urchins clumped together in an urchin barren.
Ocean

These urchin-eating sea stars might be helping us reduce carbon levels

A mangrove tree in Florida to represent blue carbon and the ocean's power to fight climate change
Ocean

Blue carbon is a natural climate solution with big potential

Roofgarden in Rotterdam, Netherlands
Engineering

Pumping carbon dioxide waste to rooftop gardens boosts crop yields

Scientists still are figuring out how to age the ancient footprints in White Sands National Park
Archaeology

Scientists still are figuring out how to age the ancient footprints in White Sands National Park

Earth’s natural air-scrubbing system works better when it’s wetter
Science

Earth’s natural air-scrubbing system works better when it’s wetter

Air Company and US Air Force's SAF test flight.
Air Force

Sustainable jet fuel is taking off with commercial airlines

The International Space Station, seen from a Dragon Capsule in November 2021.
International Space Station

Need more air in space? Magnets could yank it out of water.