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Physicists get under the skin of apple growth

09 Oct 2021
Figure depicting the cross-section of apples at different stages of growth
Fruity physics Top: A Gala apple with a cusp where the fruit meets the stalk. Bottom: Apple cross-sections at different stages of the fruit's growth. (Courtesy: Modified from Fig. 1 of A Chakrabarti et al., Nature Physics 17 1125, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-021-01335-8. Reused with permission.)
Researchers in the US have used the physics of singularities to study the recess, or cusp, that form

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Edwin Cartlidge is a science writer based in Rome
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