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Death Valley shrub rearranges its insides to thrive in one of the hottest places on EarthHeat-loving plants that thrive in California's Death Valley could hold the key to growing crops in a changing climate.
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Why can pumpkins grow so large, but blueberries can't?Most fruit is pretty small, so why do pumpkins grow to such enormous sizes?
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Fruits and vegetables quiz: Do you know where pumpkins, blueberries and broccoli come from?Do you know where your staple fruits and vegetables were domesticated? Take Live Science's quiz to find out.
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Plants self-organize in a 'hidden order,' echoing pattern found across natureScientists have discovered a "perfect disordered hyperuniform" pattern in how plants arrange themselves across many dry landscapes that allows them to make the most of water resources.
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Scientists discover gold nanoparticles hidden in spruce tree needlesSpruce tree needles contain tiny gold particles — and they could indicate large gold deposits beneath the surface.
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Do figs really have dead wasps in them?Does every fig you eat really have a dead wasp inside?
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Cairo Fossil Forest: The oldest forest in North America with 385 million-year-old treesThe Cairo Fossil Forest is the second oldest in the world. These forests mark a turning point in Earth's history because they changed the composition of the atmosphere, scientists say.
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Chinese scientists create multicolored glow-in-the-dark succulents that recharge in sunlightResearchers injected "afterglow" phosphor particles into succulents to create the world's first multicolored glow-in-the-dark plants, featuring blue, green, red and blue-violet luminescence.
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Plants have a secret, second set of roots deep underground that scientists didn't know aboutA global analysis deep in soil found 20% of plants studied have an unexpected deeper set of roots more than 3 feet underground.
