“Designed purely for enjoyment, the Firefly Petunia marks a shift from biotechnology’s traditionally utilitarian path.”
.…from a Light Bio news release about the Firefly Petunia, which goes on sale this Friday at Calloway’s Nursery locations across North Texas.
They’re one of the first signs of summer: fireflies blinking out lime-green signals to their friends, potential mates, and spellbound humans. But you don’t have to go outside to watch a nightly light show. Now you can bring that biolumenescent magic inside your own home—in flower form—with Light Bio’s Firefly Petunia, The glow-in-the-dark flower goes on sale Friday at Calloway’s Nursery locations across North Texas, along with a special after-hours event.
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One of TIME Magazine's Best Inventions of 2024, Light Bio's glow-in-the-dark Firefly Petunia goes on sale this Friday at Calloway's Nursery locations across DFW. Gardeners can get insights about the flower at special after-hours events that same day.
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UT Dallas researcher Dr. Walter Voit transformed Minecraft’s 170-million-player universe into an advanced virtual training ground—for students and for AI agents tested by DARPA. His team’s Polycraft World uses gameplay to turn classroom theory into real-world expertise, covering topics from synthetic organic chemistry to nuclear plants to semiconductor facilities. Their new startup company, Pedegree Studios, has licensed the core technologies from the university to create a scalable digital pipeline for education and workforce development.
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CEO Dave Copps says Worlds is delivering AI for the real world, in real time. Spotlighted by Gartner, Worlds’ breakthrough tech for enterprise creates a dynamic “index of everything” from any camera or sensor. The goal? To radically transform how organizations monitor, measure, and automate their operations.
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The new record for the most users to take an online financial literacy lesson in 24 hours involved members of the public and students from Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD and Richardson ISD. Participants got rousing support from Dallas Mavericks player P.J. Washington, who said "being disciplined for six months can change your life forever."
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It may be cloudy in the Dallas area for Monday's eclipse. But if you're going to Irving's Total Eclipse in the Park event, at least you'll have one compensation: the World's Largest Moon Pie. But don't try to eat it all—it weighs nearly 200 pounds and clocks in at 365,042 calories.
