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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. defense secretary at the time said something along the lines of, “We planted sunflowers here and the sun started shining again.” Hearing his words, I thought about the possibility of ...