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In a study published in the journal Physical Review, researchers Orit Peleg from CU Boulder and Yasmine Meroz from Tel Aviv University revealed why sunflowers dance as they grow. Their study revealed that the random movement in sunflowers was a way to find sunlight. Orit Peleg, a co-author of the study and an associate professor at the BioFrontiers Institute and Department of Computer Science, told ScienceDaily, “A lot of people didn’t really consider the motion of plants because, as humans, we were usually looking at plants at the wrong frame rate.” The mystery solved by these researchers eve…