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Sunflowers make small moves to maximize their Sun exposure − physicists can model them to predict how they grow

  • Written by Chantal Nguyen, Postdoctoral Associate at the BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado Boulder
Sunflowers make small moves to maximize their Sun exposure − physicists can model them to predict how they growSunflowers use tiny movements to follow the Sun's path throughout the day.AP Photo/Charlie Riedel

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, Charles Darwin lay ill in bed, with nothing...

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