Researchers may have found a new form of chlorophyll, the pigment that plants, algae and cyanobacteria use to obtain energy from light through photosynthesis. Preliminary findings published August 19 ...

During HB06, Scripps graduate student Meg Rippy collected a water sample for phytoplankton analysis as technician Kent Smith drove a chlorophyll-sampling jet ski. The row of flags extending offshore ...

Quantum physics plays a larger role than scientists had expected in plants’ capture of light. New findings could explain life’s uncannily efficient use of solar energy, researchers say. In organisms ...