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The lungs of trees: forests and photosynthesis
The importance of photosynthesis and the carbon cycle
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The mysterious quantum mechanism behind photosynthesis
Plants use quantum effects to achieve near-perfect energy efficiency
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Movile Cave in Romania hosts an ecosystem isolated for 5.5 million years
48 unique species live without sunlight in a world of chemosynthetic bacteria
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The spotted salamander: The first vertebrate capable of feeding through photosynthesis
The unusual case of the amphibian that hosts living algae inside its own cells to harvest solar energy.
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The European X-ray laser: The 'slow motion' camera capable of filming chemical reactions atom by atom
An underground tunnel over three kilometers long fires 27,000 flashes per second to capture the exact moment molecular bonds form or break.
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Elysia marginata: The sea slug that decapitates itself at will to regenerate a whole body
Faced with lethal internal parasites, this mollusk severs its own head and survives for weeks without a heart using stolen solar energy.
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Banded iron formations: The rocks that immortalized the planet's first breath
How trillions of prehistoric microbes oxidized the oceans and forged the world's largest ore deposits.
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The photosynthetic salamander: The only vertebrate that harbors solar energy inside its own cells
A biological discovery showed that spotted salamander embryos integrate living algae into their tissue to feed on light.
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The emerald sea slug: The mollusk that steals chloroplasts to live on sunlight
Discover how Elysia chlorotica blurs the line between the animal and plant kingdoms by photosynthesizing.
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The fastest flash in the universe: how X-ray lasers reveal the secret of life in quadrillionths of a second
A journey to the heart of matter: the technology that allows observing atoms and molecules 'in motion'
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The secret pulse of the forest: When trees share life through their roots
Beyond fungi: The invisible network of survival and direct nutrition among flora
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Cyanobacteria: the silent architects that oxygenated Earth
How these microscopic organisms radically transformed our planet's atmosphere, making complex life as we know it possible.
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