They found that the pointed cusps that form at the edge of rose petals are due to a type of geometric frustration called a ...

The pointy edges of petals rely on a type of geometric feedback never before seen in nature.

Scientists discovered that rose petals form their pointed tips by concentrating stress in small areas along the edges.

Roses, long admired for their beauty and symbolic richness, owe their iconic petal shape to a mechanical process that has remained largely mysterious—until now. According to a new study, the pointed ...

Roses of all colors exist today, including red, pink, peach, and white. They belong to the genus Rosa. They make […] ...

Reconstructing the ancestral traits through genomic analysis revealed that all the roads trace back to a common ancestor—a single-petal flower with yellow ... pointed to two major centers of ...