Photosynthesis Has a Fatal Flaw (and We Can Fix It)

↓↓↓ More info and sources below ↓↓↓ Plants eat sunlight and air to make life. But the key enzyme behind it all, called rubisco, isn’t actually all that great at its job. Let’s talk about how photosynthesis really works, why oxygen isn’t coming from where you think, and whether we can fix the...

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