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, ...
Plants don’t just grow straight up—they can move in loopy and zigzagging ways to get more sunshine. Physicists were able to model a sunflower to predict how they grow. Read from CU expert Chantal ...
Prof. Yasmine Meroz tends to her sunflowers. A new study by Tel Aviv University, in collaboration with the University of Colorado, Boulder, discovered that plants that grow in dense environments, ...
THE SUNFLOWER SPECTACULAR. THE BRIGHT FACES OF SUNFLOWERS TURN TO THE SKY. YOU CAN KIND OF SEE THEY’RE BENDING RIGHT NOW BECAUSE THEY’RE READY TO WARM BACK UP FOR ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Chantal Nguyen, University of Colorado Boulder (THE CONVERSATION) Most of us aren’t ...