Avatar may have been set in the future, but people, glowing trees are real on planet Earth and may one day replace streetlights everywhere! Apparently when Taiwanese researchers put gold nanoparticles into Bacopa Caroliniana plants, the chlorophyll in the plants produced neon light! The combo also caused photosynthesis to happen more rapidly aka more carbon was consumed from the atmosphere and air was purified faster. Wowie zowie. Read more on Gizmodo!
Photo by Romana Klee.
Thanks to Rex for sharing!
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