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Photosynthesis Has a Fatal Flaw (and We Can Fix It) (2025x4)

Air date: Apr 24, 2025

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 biggest flaw in one of Earth’s most essential processes.