A diagram detailing the Bionic Leaf, which uses solar power and bacteria to turn carbon dioxide into food and methane fuel. (SoundBio Labs Image) Earth faces some troubling conundrums. On one front, ...

Brainchild of Harvard biochemist Daniel Nocera, the “bionic leaf” is a small man-made solar collector that takes sunlight and water and turns it into any of a variety of usable fuels or fertilizers.

Like their natural counterparts, artificial leaves take in sunlight to generate fuel. In the case of the latter, that solar energy is used to break water down into hydrogen and oxygen, and that in ...

Here’s an alternative source of energy many have never heard of—bionic leaves. Scientists from Harvard University just made photosynthesis more efficient with what its creators are calling the “bionic ...

Over the last few years, great strides have been made in creating artificial leaves that mimic the ability of their natural counterparts to produce energy from water and sunlight. In 2011, the first ...

Forget turning water into wine. A new project wants to turn air into food. It’s called the Bionic Leaf, and it’s a new, almost sci-fi technology that claims to employ the power of the sun and bacteria ...

Researchers at Harvard may have found a way to one-up nature. A system they developed, called the Bionic Leaf 2.0, can mimic photosynthesis up to 10 times more efficiently than an actual plant, ...

A team of scientists at Harvard University says it has come up with a bionic leaf — a system that could use solar power and hydrogen-eating bacteria to generate liquid fuel. The findings, described in ...

Researchers in the Chemistry department and at Harvard Medical School are exploring new applications for a “bionic leaf” that can generate liquid fuel and other valuable resources using only sunlight, ...

In the second half of the 20th century, the mass use of fertilizer was part of an agricultural boom called the “green revolution” that was largely credited with averting a global food crisis. Now, the ...