Scientists have discovered a "perfect disordered hyperuniform" pattern in how plants arrange themselves across many dry ...

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In plants, for example, organelles called chloroplasts photosynthesize to generate energy for the organism. Because some organelles contain their own DNA and resemble single-celled organisms, ...