Unusual ‘extrinsic’ geometries give rose petals their curled edges and pointed corners. Plus, a new technique that can directly edit proteins in living cells and how India rewrote the rules of space ...
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Understanding why rose petals curl: How stress, geometry, and biology shape their elegant forms
Rose petals, celebrated for their vivid colours and graceful curves, are more than just visually striking. Their unique shapes arise from a complex interaction of biology, physics, and geometry. As ...
Close up of a water drop on a rose petal. Rose petals exhibit a property called superhydrophobicity, which is of interest to material scientists. Now, researchers at Iowa State University have managed ...
Isolation and analysis of single-cell transcriptomes from mei petals. A Petal protoplast extraction at BS and FS. B UMAP visualization of samples at BS and FS. C Correlation analysis of scRNA-seq ...
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