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Researchers are studying whether Ginkgo biloba leaves might support weary leg veins and cut the risk of blood clots.
Leaf vein systems are made up of major veins (the first three branching "orders," which are large and visible to the naked eye) and minor veins, (the mesh embedded within the leaf, ...
How some leaves got fat: It's the veins Date: April 11, 2013 Source: Brown University Summary: Some plants, such as succulents, have managed to grow very plump leaves.
You might assume that a leaf's vein patterns fork, like tree branches splitting into twigs as they get further from the trunk. But peer carefully and you'll see that the veins make innumerable ...
Leaf veins inspire a new model for distribution networks Date: March 3, 2010 Source: Rockefeller University Summary: A straight line may be the shortest path from A to B, but it's not always the ...
Lawn herbicides can volatilize when applied during hot weather. The vapors drift through the air and can cause plant damage ...
AVOIDING A BAD SPOT Veins’ looped network allows water and nutrients to flow around an injury (green dot) on the main vein of a lemon leaf. E. Katifori et al/PRL 2010 ...
There have been many, many discoveries that promise longer battery life, but one of the latest is rare in taking its inspiration from one of the most common structures in nature: the leaf vein.
image: Veins, housed within the purple-stained mucilage deposits of this cross-section of a succulent Phemeranthus teretifolius leaf, are arranged in a ring shape that reduces the distance between ...
Leaf veins 'crack' under stress. Monday, 14 April 2008 Jessica Marshall Discovery News. Pressure building up in this leaf creates a 'crack' pattern of squished, cigar-shaped cells that ...
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