Carbon dioxide (CO₂) pollution drives climate change, warming the planet and threatening human survival. Plants naturally turn CO₂ into oxygen (O₂) during photosynthesis, but their efficiency is ...

It’s incredibly easy to dump carbon into the atmosphere and accelerate climate change. It’s a lot harder to take it out. Startups are experimenting with massive industrial systems to draw the ...

Through photosynthesis plants convert carbon dioxide from the atmosphere into glucose and oxygen, it just takes a little water and sunlight. It’s often referred to as: “breathing in” carbon dioxide ...

When humans dream of venturing farther into the cosmos, one question looms: how do we sustain life and the journey toward the stars? Aboard China’s Tiangong space station (the name means Heavenly ...

Researchers in China have developed a robot chemist powered by artificial intelligence (AI) that might be able to extract oxygen from water on Mars. The robot uses materials found on the red planet to ...