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Chinese Scientists Made Glowing Plants with Firefly DNA to Replace Streetlights
(www.zmescience.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2026
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Hopefully they engineer the plants so that the seeds only germinate through some human means, that way they don't spread unmanaged and fuck up ecosystems. But very cool idea.