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Contact: Caroline Perry
cperry@seas.harvard.edu
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Harvard University
Caption: An intact cucumber tendril (top) and a fiber ribbon (bottom) that has been extracted from a tendril both coil in the same, predictable way. Studying the cellular structure of these tendrils has helped researchers to understand a new type of spring.
Credit: Joshua Puzey and Sharon Gerbode
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