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| Melchiorri's design for photosynthetic facade dezeen.com |
A man-made (specifically, art-student-made) leaf uses plant chloroplasts embedded in silk fibers to transform CO2 and light into oxygen. As is sometimes the case, the string of comments below the story is just as worthwhile as the story itself ~ including the one pointing out the fallacy of the inventor's contention that plants can't be grown without gravity. Still, it's a pretty impressive ~ and promising ~ achievement (story, video): http://gizmodo.com/the-first-man-made-biological-leaf-turns-light-and-wate-1612646588
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