These Glow-in-the-Dark Flowers Will Make Your Garden Look Like Avatar

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These Glow-in-the-Dark Flowers Will Make Your Garden Look Like Avatar

The sci-fi dream that gardens and parks would one day glow like Pandora, the alien moon in Avatar, is decades old. Early attempts to splice genes into plants to make them glow date back to the 1980s, but experiments emitted little light and required special food. Then in 2020, scientists made a breakthrough. Adding genes from luminous mushrooms yielded brightly glowing specimens that needed no special care. The team has refined the approach—writ…