These constrained plants produced less oil than the plants that could lean and get the maximum amount of sun. While farmers ...

with mature sunflowers generally facing east. Heliotropism is the scientific term for this incredible process where flowers move in response to the sun's movement. Just like humans, plants have ...

2 Sunflowers are an especially good species to study because they are so big and move so dramatically. In an earlier study, her team found that in the morning, when the sun is still to the east, cells ...

Sunflowers famously turn their faces to follow the sun as it crosses the sky. But how do sunflowers “see” the sun to follow it? New work from plant biologists at UC Davis, published Oct. 31 in ...

SmartFlower was inspired by the heliotropic properties of the sunflower. Heliotropism is when plants move in response to the direction of the sun. Like a sunflower, the SmartFlower opens its ...

Real flowers do it, and even the Beatles did it. [Robo Hub] now has a plastic sunflower that tracks the sun using, of course, an Arduino. It may not qualify as a real robot, but it does mimic a ...

Do you love sunflowers? You might not realize it, but this little fact says a lot more about you than you think.

Did you know, sunflowers always face the east? In the morning, the flourishing blooms face the direction of the rising sun and as the sun slowly starts to move, the sunflower heads eagerly follow ...