photosynthesis
To Feed the World, We May Need to Hack Photosynthesis
Posted in Science on 29th Mar, 2015
by Alex Muller
In the past decades, yield improvements have slowed as crops have reached their biological limits. If we are to continue hastening growth, crop breeding might not be enough.
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.