Most of us aren’t spending our days watching our houseplants grow. We see their signs of life only occasionally – a new leaf unfurled, a stem leaning toward the window. But in the summer of 1863, ...
TEL AVIV-YAFO, Israel — Sunflowers really do “dance” as they grow so as not to block solar rays from each other, reveals new research. The study sheds light on a scientific puzzle that has occupied ...
Dancing in the sunlight: Yasmine Meroz inspects a sunflower plant. (Courtesy: Tel Aviv University) Sunflowers in a field can co-ordinate the circular motions of their growing stems to minimize the ...
A new study by Tel Aviv University, in collaboration with the University of Colorado, Boulder, discovered that plants that grow in dense environments, where each plant casts a shadow on its neighbor, ...
Sunflowers really do "dance" as they grow so as not to block solar rays from each other, reveals new research. The study sheds light on a scientific puzzle that has occupied researchers since the days ...
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