The future of clean green solar power may well hinge on scientists being able to unravel the mysteries of photosynthesis, the process by which green plants convert sunlight into electrochemical energy ...

Biomimicry is all the rage in cleantech these days. There are solar cells modeled after butterfly wings, fans borrowing from humpback whales to become more aerodynamic and wind turbine blades ...

ONE response to the question “does life use quantum effects?” comes in the form of another question: “why wouldn’t it?”. All life has evolved to make use of the world we happen to find ourselves in, ...

Just over 200 years after French engineer and physicist Sadi Carnot formulated the second law of thermodynamics, an international team of researchers has unveiled an analogous law for the quantum ...

The entanglement battery may even find uses outside entanglement theory. For example, the same principles apply to systems involving more than two entangled particles, paving the way for understanding ...

During photosynthesis, a chemical reaction jumpstarted by sunlight breaks down chemicals into the food plants need to repair themselves and to grow. But as researchers attempt to better understand ...