Lessons to be learned from nature could lead to the development of an artificial version of photosynthesis that would provide us with an absolutely clean and virtually inexhaustible energy source, say ...

Tjaart Krüger works for the University of Pretoria as senior lecturer. He receives funding from the University of Pretoria and the National Research Foundation. Previously he received funding from the ...

The green sulfur bacterium makes its home in the chilly waters of the Black Sea. To eek out its lonely existence, this life form scavenges energy from the feeble sunlight available to it at a depth of ...