Imagine walking down a city street lit not by neon signs or LED bulbs but by glowing trees. That sci-fi vision just got closer to reality thanks to a team of scientists in China who figured out how to ...

To make the plants glow, Liu and her fellow researchers injected the leaves of the succulent Echeveria “Mebina” with strontium aluminate, a material often used in glow-in-the-dark toys that absorbs ...