Plants constantly juggle oxygen inside their cells, but scientists have now discovered a surprising twist in how that balance works. Researchers at the University of Helsinki found that ...

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For decades, school textbooks have explained that oxygen on Earth is mainly produced through photosynthesis, a process that depends on sunlight. Plant.

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Images: Carolin Dreher, Jeremiah Shuster Scanning electron microscope images of the spherical cyanobacteria Synechococcus sp. PCC7002 ...

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After a friend asked how to run faster, the solution wasn’t altitude training — it was the opposite. This custom-built oxygen mask was designed to flood the body with extra oxygen during workouts, ...

Carolin L. Dreher, Olaf A. Cirpka, Manuel Schad Kurt O. Konhauser, Andreas Kappler: Survival of cyanobacteria and mitigation of Fe (II) toxicity effects in a silica-rich Archean ocean. Nature ...

For centuries, it was believed that the production of oxygen relied on one component: photosynthesis (the conversion of light energy into chemical energy). Plants and algae use sunlight to convert ...